- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-30
Defines a statutory agreement and explains that it has the power to generate or bar an action whenever it is supported by a law or a decree of the senate.
[PAULUS libro tertio ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book 3]
Legitima conuentio est quae lege aliqua confirmatur. et ideo interdum ex pacto actio nascitur uel tollitur,1 quotiens lege uel senatus consulto adiuuatur.2
A statutory agreement is one which is confirmed by some law. And therefore, sometimes an action arises or is barred from a pact, whenever it is supported by a law or a decree of the senate.
- 2.14.6.prex pacto actio nascitur uel tollitur
The phrase "an action arises or is barred from a pact" illustrates the dual legal effect of an agreement. Although a bare agreement (pactum nudum) generally does not produce an action (actio) but only a defense (exceptio), a "statutory agreement" (legitima conuentio) confirmed by law has the power to either generate a new action (nascitur) or extinguish an existing one (tollitur).
- 2.14.6.prquotiens lege uel senatus consulto adiuuatur
The subject of the verb adiuuatur (third-person singular present passive) is not explicitly stated, but it refers back to pacto (or conuentio). It indicates that whenever an agreement is reinforced by an official source of law such as a statute or a senatusconsultum, an action (which does not normally arise from a bare pact) may arise or be barred.