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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.186.pr

No Demand Before Possible Performance or Due Date

Passage 9246 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Stipulates that no demand for performance can be made before the time when it is naturally possible, or, if a specific time for payment is added to an obligation, before that time has elapsed.

[IDEM libro duodecimo digestorum. ] §50.17.186.prNihil peti potest ante id tempus, quo per rerum naturam persolui possit: et cum soluendi tempus obligationi additur, nisi eo praeterito peti non potest.
[THE SAME, in the twelfth book of the Digests.] Nothing can be demanded before that time at which, by the nature of things, it can be performed; and when a time of payment is added to an obligation, it cannot be demanded unless that time has elapsed.

Notes

  1. §50.17.186.prpossit — Subjunctive present in a relative clause of characteristic (limiting clause) modifying "id tempus", expressing potentiality or a general characteristic under the nature of things.
  2. §50.17.186.preo praeterito — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the ablative of the demonstrative pronoun "eo" (referring to "tempus") and the perfect participle "praeterito" of "praetereo" (to pass). It is used with "nisi" to express a negative condition ("unless it has elapsed").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.186.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.186.pr

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