- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.15.1.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-31
Ulpian defines the fundamental difference between a compromise (transactio), which assumes a doubtful or unresolved dispute, and an agreement (pactum), which gratuitously releases a certain and undisputed right.
[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS in the fiftieth book on the Edict.]
Qui transigit,1 quasi de re dubia et lite incerta neque finita transigit. qui uero paciscitur, donationis causa2 rem certam et indubitatam liberalitate remittit.
He who makes a compromise does so as if concerning a doubtful matter and an uncertain and unfinished litigation. But he who makes an agreement, for the sake of a gift, releases by way of liberality a certain and undoubted matter.
- 2.15.1.prQui transigit
A relative clause with the antecedent (is) omitted, serving as the subject of the main verb transigit. It refers to "one who makes a compromise (transactio)" as a legal act, contrasted with "one who makes an agreement (pactum)" (qui paciscitur) in the latter part of the section.
- 2.15.1.prdonationis causa
The ablative of the noun causa modified by the genitive donationis (of a gift), placed postpositively to function as an idiomatic expression meaning "for the sake of a gift" or "by way of donation."
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-07-12)
- en retranslated with Gemini 3.5 Flash on 2026-07-13