A BRIEF REVIEW OF SOURCES ON EMENDATIO MORAE IN THE DIGEST OF JUSTINIAN

Maša Kulauzov; Milan Milutin

doi:10.5937/zrpfns57-48373

Maša Kulauzov
Milan Milutin University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law Novi Sad https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4025-5222

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/zrpfns57-48373

Keywords: debtor’s default purging, purgatio morae, emendatio morae, debtor’s default, mora debitoris, mora solvendi

Abstract

Purgatio or emendatio morae would in the literal translation into English mean purging the default. In Roman classical law, it amounted to the possibility of the debtor in default, firstly, to fulfil the primary obligation and, secondly, to remediate potential legal effects of the consequences of mora debitoris. There were other ways of purging the default as well. As a consequence of emendatio morae, debtor’s obligations, both primary and secondary ones, would cease to exist and the consequences of mora debitoris would cease to produce legal effects. Therefore, purgatio morae consisted of two elements: debtor’s offer to completely fulfil the prestation owed as well as his offer to remediate the legal effects of the consequences of the default.

Author Biography

Milan Milutin, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law Novi Sad

Milan Milutin was born in Novi Sad in 1989. He graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 2012. He earned his Master of Laws degree in 2014, his final thesis having been entitled “The Jurisdictions of Provincial Governors in the Matter of Property Law in Rome”. He defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “Mora Debitoris in Roman Classical Law” in 2021 at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law.

Scholarships and Awards: scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Science (2009); scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin, Germany (2010-2012); on multiple occasions awarded Golden plaque of Provincial Poetry Reciting Competition “Pesniče naroda mog”, participated thrice at the State Poetry Reciting Competition and awarded III prize at the International Oratory Competition “Sirmium – lux verbi” in Sremska Mitrovica in the ex tempore category; awarded First Prize at the State History Competition (2008); University of Novi Sad Award for Exceptional Academic Performance (academic year 2008/09); University of Novi Sad Award for Student Scientific Paper entitled “Constitutional Complaint as an Instrument of Direct Protection of Human Rights Before the Constitutional Court” (2009); Audience Award at the Oratory Competition at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law (2008); First Prize at the Oratory Competition at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law (2010); participation of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law competition team at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition – national round (2010); participation of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law competition teams at the Foreign Direct Investment Moot Competition (2010 and 2012).

Specialization (within the country and abroad): University of Milan, Faculty of Law as a part of the Sigma Agile Programme (2016).

Work experience: Novi Sad Faculty of Law (2012- ).

Areas of narrow scientific interest: Roman law, civil-law responsibility in Roman law, mora debitoris in Roman law.

He speaks English and Italian, while improving German and Latin.

References

5. LIST OF REFERENCES
5.1. SOURCES
• The Institutes of Gaius 3.168, - The paper uses the text of the Institutes of Gaius according to the edition Gai Institutionum Commentarii Quattuor, Ed. VI, Emil Seckel et Bernhard Gustav Adolf Kvebler, Libsiae MCMIII:
1. Gai. 3.168.
• Justinian's Digest - The paper uses the text of Justinian's Digest according to the edition „Iustiniani Digesta“ (Recognovit Theodorus Mommsen / Retractavit Paulus Krueger), Corpus Iuris Civilis, vol. I, Berlin 1872, available at https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/, accessed on 9th December, 2023. In the first volume of this edition, Justinian's Institutions and Justinian's Digest were published, the first of which was edited by Paul Krieger (Krueger), and the second by Teodor Mommsen (Mommsen):

1. D. 3.5.38
2. D. 5.1.38
3. D. 12.1.21
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5. D. 18.6.1.4
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14. D. 45.1.73.2
15. D. 45.1.91.3
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19. D. 45.1.135.2
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