- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.5.15.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-06
This passage explains that the management of affairs in principle forms a single legal relationship (contract), but if one initially undertook it for a limited purpose, starting another affair with a new intention constitutes a separate contract.
[IDEM libro septimo ad Plautium.]
[THE SAME, on Plautius, book seven]
Sed et cum aliquis negotia mea gerat, non multa negotia sunt, sed unus contractus, nisi si ab initio ad unum negotium accessit, ut finito eo1 discederet:2 hoc enim casu si noua uoluntate aliud quoque adgredi coeperit, alius contractus est.
But also when someone manages my affairs, they are not several affairs, but a single contract, unless he approached a single affair from the beginning with the intention that, when it was finished, he would depart: for in this case, if he has begun to undertake another affair also with a new intention, it is another contract.
- 3.5.15.prfinito eo
Ablative absolute. It consists of the pronoun eo (neuter singular ablative, referring back to the preceding unum negotium) and finito (perfect passive participle of finio, neuter singular ablative), expressing condition or time ('when it was finished' or 'once it is finished').
- 3.5.15.prut finito eo discederet
The conjunction ut introduces an adverbial clause of purpose or intention ('in order to', 'with the intention that'), taking the imperfect subjunctive discederet (from discedo, 'to depart' or 'withdraw') due to the sequence of tenses following the historical perfect accessit in the main clause.