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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §15.1.20.pr

Bar on Peculium Actions Between Co-Owners of a Slave

Passage 2279 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that co-owners of a slave cannot bring an action concerning the peculium against one another.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo ad edictum. ] §15.1.20.prnam inter se agere socii de peculio non possunt.
[PAULUS in the thirtieth book on the Edict.] For co-owners cannot bring an action concerning the peculium among themselves.

Notes

  1. §15.1.20.prsocii — Refers to the "two owners (duobus dominis)" mentioned in the preceding text (Ulpianus, D. 15.1.19.2), meaning co-owners of a slave. Disputes between them must be resolved through actions such as the action on partnership (actio pro socio) or for the division of common property (actio communi dividundo), rather than the action concerning the peculium (actio de peculio).
  2. §15.1.20.pragere... de peculio — Means to bring the action concerning the peculium (actio de peculio). The intransitive verb agere is used with de + ablative in a technical legal sense meaning "to bring an action concerning."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §15.1.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:15.1.20.pr

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