- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.5.39.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-07
The author argues that if someone provides security for threatened damage on behalf of a co-owner's share, the expenses should be claimed through an action on business transacted rather than an action for dividing common property.
[PAULUS libro decimo ad Sabinum.]
[PAULUS, On Sabinus, Book X]
Si communes aedes tecum habeam et pro tua parte damni infecti uicino cauero, dicendum est quod praestitero1 negotiorum gestorum actione potius quam communi diuidundo iudicio posse me petere,2 quia potui partem meam ita defendere, ut socii partem defendere non cogerer.3
If I should have a building in common with you, and on behalf of your share I provide security to a neighbor against threatened damage, it must be said that I can claim what I have paid by an action on business transacted rather than by an action for dividing common property, because I was able to protect my own share in such a way that I would not be forced to protect my partner’s share.
- 3.5.39.prquod praestitero
The word 'quod' is a relative pronoun in the accusative neuter singular, with the antecedent 'id' being omitted. 'praestitero' is the future perfect (or perfect subjunctive) of 'praesto' (to pay, provide). The entire phrase means 'what I have paid' and serves as the direct object of the subsequent infinitive 'petere' (to claim).
- 3.5.39.prposse me petere
Accusative with infinitive construction, functioning as the subject (or dependent clause) of the impersonal expression 'dicendum est' (it must be said). 'me' is the subject accusative of the infinitive 'petere'.
- 3.5.39.prita defendere, ut socii partem defendere non cogerer
The correlation 'ita ... ut' (with the subjunctive 'cogerer') expresses result or manner: 'to protect my own share in such a way that I would not be forced to protect my partner's share'. 'cogerer' is the 1st person singular imperfect passive subjunctive of 'cogo' (to force).