[PAULUS libro quarto epitomarum Alfeni. ] §10.4.19.prAd exhibendum possunt agere omnes quorum interest.
[PAULUS, from the fourth book of the Epitomes of Alfenus.] All those who have an interest can bring an action for production.
sed quidam consuluit, an possit efficere haec actio, ut rationes aduersarii sibi exhiberentur, quas exhiberi magni eius interesset.
But someone asked for advice as to whether this action could bring about the production of his adversary's accounts to him, when it was of great interest to him that they should be produced.
respondit non oportere ius ciuile calumniari neque uerba captari, sed qua mente quid diceretur, animaduertere conuenire.
He replied that the civil law ought not to be caviled at, nor should its words be caught at, but that it was proper to consider with what intention anything was said.
nam illa ratione etiam studiosum alicuius doctrinae posse dicere sua interesse illos aut illos libros sibi exhiberi, quia, si essent exhibiti, cum eos legisset, doctior et melior futurus esset.
For by that reasoning even a student of some branch of learning could say that it was of interest to him for this or that book to be produced to him, on the ground that, if they were produced, once he had read them, he would become more learned and better.