- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.14.53.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-31
While it is honorable to advance litigation expenses to a party, making an agreement to receive half of the proceeds of the lawsuit instead of repayment with lawful interest is unlawful.
[IDEM libro quarto opinionum.]
[THE SAME, Opinions, book 4]
Sumptus quidem prorogare1 litiganti honestum est: pacisci autem, ut non2 quantitas eo nomine expensa cum usuris licitis restituatur, sed pars dimidia eius, quod ex ea lite datum erit, non licet.
To advance expenses to a litigant is indeed honorable; but to agree that, instead of the sum expended on that account being repaid with lawful interest, a half share of what shall have been awarded from that lawsuit (be given), is not permitted.
- 2.14.53.prprorogare
The verb prorogare generally means 'to prolong' or 'defer', but here it is used in the sense of 'to advance' or 'pay beforehand' (expenses to a litigant).
- 2.14.53.prpacisci autem, ut non
The infinitive pacisci (from the deponent verb paciscor) functions as the subject of the impersonal expression non licet. The ut clause expresses the content of the agreement (pacisci), and after sed, a verb like restituatur (repaid) or detur (given) is understood to govern the noun phrase pars dimidia...