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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.99.pr

Absence of Bad Faith in Ignorance of the Exact Debt

Passage 9159 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Venuleius states that a person who is ignorant of the exact amount they are required to pay cannot be regarded as dishonest or acting in bad faith.

[UENULEIUS libro duodecimo stipulationum. ] §50.17.99.prNon potest improbus uideri, qui ignorat quantum soluere debeat.
[VENULEIUS, from his twelfth book on Stipulations.] A person who does not know how much he ought to pay cannot be deemed dishonest.

Notes

  1. §50.17.99.primprobus uideri — The adjective improbus (dishonest, wicked) is in the nominative case as the complement of the passive infinitive uideri (to seem, to be deemed), agreeing with the unexpressed subject of the main clause, which is modified by the qui clause.
  2. §50.17.99.prquantum soluere debeat — This is an indirect question clause introduced by the interrogative pronoun quantum (how much) depending on the verb ignorat (does not know) in the relative clause. Thus, the verb debeat is in the subjunctive mood (present subjunctive active, third-person singular).

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