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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.25.pr

Contribution for Claims Involving a Deputy Slave

Passage 1720 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses that if an action on the peculium is brought concerning a deputy slave owned by a common slave and one master pays the full amount, they can still claim half from the other master through actions for division or partnership, even if the deputy slave subsequently dies.

[IDEM libro duodecimo digestorum. ] §10.3.25.prSi Stichus communis meus et tuus seruus habuerit Pamphilum uicarium aureorum decem et mecum actum de peculio fuerit condemnatusque decem praestitero: quamuis postea Pamphilus decesserit, nihilo minus actione communi diuidundo uel pro socio quinque milia praestare debebis, quia te hoc aere alieno liberaui.
[THE SAME, Digest, book XII.] If Stichus, a slave common to me and you, had a deputy slave Pamphilus worth ten aurei, and an action on the peculium was brought against me, and, having been condemned, I paid ten aurei: even though Pamphilus subsequently died, you will nonetheless be obliged to pay five thousand (sesterces) either by an action for dividing common property or by an action on partnership, because I freed you from this debt.
longe magis consequar, si Stichus post mortem Pamphili alium uicarium adquisierat.
I shall recover this much more if Stichus had acquired another deputy slave after the death of Pamphilus.

Notes

  1. §10.3.25.practum ... fuerit — actum fuerit is the passive voice of the legal expression agere cum aliquo (to bring an action against someone), used impersonally here. Combined with mecum (against me) and de peculio (concerning the peculium), it means 'if an action on the peculium was brought against me.'
  2. §10.3.25.prquinque milia — The numeral quinque (five) with the neuter plural noun milia (thousands) expresses 'five thousand.' In Roman legal texts, the genitive plural of the currency unit sestertium (of sesterces) is routinely omitted. However, there is an arithmetical inconsistency between this 'five thousand sesterces' (equivalent to 50 aurei) and the half of the 'ten aurei' mentioned earlier, likely due to compilation errors in updating currency units in later periods.
  3. §10.3.25.prconsequar — The future indicative active first-person singular of the verb consequor (to obtain, recover). In this context, it means 'I shall recover (the reimbursement mentioned above through legal action),' where the object is understood from the context.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.25.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.25.pr

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