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even the jurisprudence of the Quirites ancient Roman citizens has admitted in the laws here and there. Examples are provided to us most clearly by Paulus in L. 21. pr. ff. ad L. Falcidiam, also by Marcianus in L. 64. pr. ff. ad SCtum Trebell. Senatus Consultum Trebellianum joined with L. 44. ff. de solut., as well as by Ulpianus in L. 1. ff. de Novat. Digest on novation, and also by Pomponius in L. 42. ff. de Jurejurand. Digest on oaths and elsewhere. And this holds generally, whether the ward has become richer or not, for example, if he had perchance lost money in a game of dice, as the more accurate interpreters teach from L. 25. §. 1. ff. Quando dies leg. Digest on when the day for legacies arrives, such as Huber in Prælect. Inst. tit. de Inut. stipul. and Schilter in Exerc. ad ff. 37. §. 117., since it is according to nature that he who is obligated when he has become richer is also obligated when he has not become richer, based on l. 10. ff. de R. J.
But just as a Natural Obligation has elsewhere received certain effects from Civil Laws, which for the most part are called Civil because of their efficient cause—for example, that it produces an exceptionem legal defense in L. 7. §. 4. ff. de Pact., prevents the condictio indebiti in L. 13. & 26. §. 12. ff. de Condict. Indeb., admits an effective novationem replacement of an obligation in L. 1. §. 1. ff. de Novat.