- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
This section explains that the actions for the division of common property, the partition of inheritance, and the regulation of boundaries are of such a nature that each party holds the double status of both plaintiff and defendant.
[IDEM libro quinquagensimo primo digestorum.]
[THE SAME, Book LI of the Digests.]
Iudicium communi diuidundo, familiae erciscundae, finium regundorum1 tale est, ut in eo singulae personae duplex ius habeant agentis et eius quocum agitur.2
The action for the division of common property, for the partition of an inheritance, and for the regulation of boundaries is of such a nature that in it each individual has the double right of a plaintiff and of him against whom the action is brought.
- 10.1.10.prIudicium communi diuidundo, familiae erciscundae, finium regundorum
The singular noun iudicium is followed by three distinct types of division and boundary actions. This general statement indicates that each of these three actions individually shares the characteristic described in the subsequent clauses.
- 10.1.10.prduplex ius ... agentis et eius quocum agitur
Genitive construction modifying ius (right, status). agentis is the genitive of the present participle of agere ("the one who acts/sues", i.e., the plaintiff). eius quocum agitur ("of him with whom it is pleaded", i.e., the defendant) uses an impersonal passive relative clause based on the phrase agere cum aliquo (to proceed against someone). This describes the nature of a double action (iudicium duplex) where the roles of plaintiff and defendant are interchangeable.