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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.23.pr

Remedies for Breach of Alternate Fruit-Sharing Agreements

Passage 1718 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In the case where an agreement between partners to enjoy fruits in alternate years is breached, the text discusses whether an action on lease or for dividing common property should be brought, concluding that because of the absence of rent, the latter or a civil action for an uncertain amount is appropriate.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo secundo ad edictum. ] §10.3.23.prSi conuenerit inter te et socium tuum, ut alternis annis fructum perciperetis, et non patiatur te socius tui anni fructum percipere, uidendum, utrum ex conducto sit actio an uero communi diuidundo.
[ULPIANUS, On the Edict, book XXXII.] If it has been agreed between you and your partner that you should gather the fruits in alternate years, and your partner does not allow you to gather the fruits of your year, we must consider whether an action on lease or indeed an action for dividing common property lies.
eadem quaestio est et si socius, qui conuenerat, ut alternis annis frueretur, pecus immisit et effecit, ut futuri anni fructus, quos socium percipere oportuit, corrumperentur.
The same question arises also if the partner, who had agreed to enjoy the fruits in alternate years, has let in cattle and caused the fruits of the following year, which the other partner ought to have gathered, to be destroyed.
et puto magis communi diuidundo iudicium quam ex conducto locum habere (quae enim locatio est, cum merces non intercesserit?) aut certe actionem incerti ciuilem reddendam.
And I think that the action for dividing common property is more applicable than the action on lease (for what lease is there when no rent has intervened?), or at least a civil action for an uncertain amount must be granted.

Notes

  1. §10.3.23.prut alternis annis fructum perciperetis — A substantive clause introduced by `ut` expressing the content of the agreement after the impersonal verb `conuenerit`.
  2. §10.3.23.prquos socium percipere oportuit — `oportuit` is an impersonal verb taking an accusative and infinitive construction (`socium percipere`) as its subject, meaning "which the other partner (`socium`) ought to have gathered". Here, `socium` refers to the injured partner, not the wrongdoing partner who let in the cattle.
  3. §10.3.23.practionem incerti ciuilem reddendam — An accusative and infinitive construction dependent on `puto`, with the omission of `esse` (`actionem ... reddendam [esse]`). The phrase `actionem incerti` refers to a civil action for an uncertain or unliquidated amount.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.23.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.23.pr

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