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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.4.35.pr

Liability of Condemned Son and Father's Peculium Responsibility

Passage 1616 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains the obligation of the condemned son himself and the subsequent liability of the father to the extent of the peculium.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §9.4.35.pret si condemnatus fuerit, filius iudicatum facere debet: tenet enim condemnatio.
[ULPIANUS, on Sabinus, Book XLI.] And if he is condemned, the son must satisfy the judgment; for the condemnation holds.
quin immo etiam illud dicendum est patrem quoque post condemnationem filii dumtaxat de peculio posse conueniri.
Nay, indeed, it must also be said that after the condemnation of the son, the father too can be sued, only to the extent of the peculium.

Notes

  1. 9.4.35.prcondemnatus fuerit — Future perfect passive. In the conditional clause, it expresses an event that must be completed prior to the action of the main clause. The subject is filius from the context.
  2. 9.4.35.priudicatum facere — A technical legal idiom in Roman law, literally meaning 'to perform what has been judged', i.e., to satisfy the judgment or pay the judgment debt.
  3. 9.4.35.prillud — Subject of dicendum est, functioning as a proleptic pronoun pointing forward to the accusative-with-infinitive clause patrem ... posse conueniri.
  4. 9.4.35.prdumtaxat de peculio — The restrictive adverb dumtaxat ('only to the extent of') limits the father's liability after his son's condemnation to the value of the son's peculium.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.4.35.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.4.35.pr

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