- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.5.46.pr-3.5.46.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-07
Explains the qualification of the party entitled to the action for business managed, and states that the distinction between a direct and an equitable action is superfluous in extraordinary proceedings.
[PAULUS libro primo sententiarum.]
[PAULUS, Opinions, Book I]
Actio negotiorum gestorum illi datur, cuius interest hoc iudicio experiri.1
The action for business managed is given to him whose interest it is to litigate by this action.
Nec refert directa quis an utili actione agat uel conueniatur,2 quia in extraordinariis iudiciis, ubi conceptio formularum non obseruatur, haec suptilitas superuacua est, maxime cum utraque actio eiusdem potestatis3 est eundemque habet effectum.
Nor does it matter whether anyone sues or is sued by a direct action or an equitable action, because in extraordinary proceedings, where the drafting of formulas is not observed, this subtlety is superfluous, especially since both actions are of the same power and have the same effect.
- 3.5.46.prcuius interest hoc iudicio experiri
The impersonal verb interest (it is of importance, it concerns) takes the genitive (cuius) to indicate the person concerned, and an infinitive (experiri) to express the object of interest. experiri is the present infinitive of the deponent verb experior, meaning 'to litigate' or 'to try an issue'. hoc iudicio is an ablative of instrument ('by this action').
- 3.5.46.1directa quis an utili actione agat uel conueniatur
An alternative indirect question introduced by an, serving as the subject of the impersonal verb refert (it matters). The two present subjunctive verbs agat (active, 'sues') and conueniatur (passive, 'is sued') share the subject quis ('anyone') and are modified by the ablatives of instrument directa... an utili actione ('by a direct or an equitable action').
- 3.5.46.1eiusdem potestatis
A genitive of quality (genitivus qualitatis) used with the copula est, meaning 'of the same power' or 'possessing the same efficacy'.