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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.8.10.pr-50.8.10.1

Correction of Errors in Accounts and Settled Debts

Passage 8764 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that while the correction of a calculation error is permitted even after ten or twenty years, accounts will not be reopened if they are said to have been settled out of favor.

[MODESTINUS libro octauo regularum. ] §50.8.10.prCalculi erroris retractatio etiam post decennii aut uicennii tempora admittetur.
[Modestinus, from the eighth book of Rules.] The correction of a calculation error will be admitted even after a period of ten or twenty years.
§50.8.10.1Sed si gratiose expunctae dicentur, non retractabuntur.
But if they are said to have been settled out of favor, they will not be reopened.

Notes

  1. 50.8.10.prCalculi erroris — A chain of genitives. 'calculi' (genitive singular of 'calculus', calculation) modifies 'erroris' (genitive singular of 'error', error), which in turn functions as an objective genitive modifying 'retractatio' (reopening, correction).
  2. 50.8.10.1expunctae dicentur — 'expunctae' is the perfect passive participle (feminine plural nominative) of 'expungere' (to cross off, settle, or audit), where a feminine plural noun such as 'rationes' (accounts) is understood as the subject. 'dicentur' is the third-person plural future passive, introducing a condition in the future.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.8.10.pr-50.8.10.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.8.10.pr-50.8.10.1

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