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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §6.1.19.pr

Security for Damage and Defendant's Personal Guarantee

Passage 1090 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citing Labeo, the text explains the obligation of the defendant himself to provide security for the proper discharge of matters if he has given security for damage not yet done concerning the land.

[ULPIANUS libro sexto decimo ad edictum. ] §6.1.19.prIpsi quoque reo cauendum esse Labeo dicit 'his rebus recte praestari', si forte fundi nomine damni infecti cauit.
[ULPIANUS, in the sixteenth book on the Edict.] Labeo says that the defendant himself also must give security for "the proper discharge of these matters", if by chance he has given security for damage not yet done on account of the land.

Notes

  1. §6.1.19.pripsi quoque reo — Dative of agent showing the logical subject of the impersonal passive gerundive cauendum esse.
  2. §6.1.19.prdamni infecti — Genitive object of the verb cauit (cauere), referring to damage not yet done but apprehended (damnum infectum).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §6.1.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.1.19.pr

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