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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.38.pr-17.2.38.1

Security for Future Losses and Choice of Actions

Passage 2540 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage explains that in an action on partnership, the arbiter must require security for pending future damages, and addresses the choice of actions regarding expenses and fruits when partnership assets are held in common.

[PAULUS libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §17.2.38.prPro socio arbiter prospicere debet cautionibus in futuro damno uel lucro pendente ex ea societate.
[PAULUS in his sixth book on Sabinus.] In an action on partnership, the arbiter must provide by means of security for future damage or profit pending from that partnership.
quod Sabinus in omnibus bonae fidei iudiciis existimauit, siue generalia sunt (ueluti pro socio, negotiorum gestorum, tutelae) siue specialia (ueluti mandati, commodati, depositi).
Sabinus thought this to be the case in all actions of good faith, whether they are general (such as for partnership, management of affairs, guardianship) or special (such as for mandate, loan for use, deposit).
§17.2.38.1Si tecum societas mihi sit et res ex societate communes, quam impensam in eas fecero quosue fructus ex his rebus ceperis, uel pro socio uel communi diuidundo me consecuturum et altera actione alteram tolli Proculus ait.
Proculus says that if I have a partnership with you and the assets arising from the partnership are common, I shall obtain whatever expense I have incurred on them or whatever fruits you have gathered from these assets, either by the action on partnership or by the action for dividing common property, and that by the one action the other is barred.

Notes

  1. §17.2.38.prcautionibus — Ablative of means. It means "by requiring/providing securities" (cautions) and modifies the intransitive verb prospicere (to provide for).
  2. §17.2.38.prpendente — Present participle pendens in the ablative singular. It agrees in gender and number with damno uel lucro (or with the nearer noun lucro) and qualifies them in the sense of "pending" or "as yet undetermined."
  3. §17.2.38.1quam impensam... quosue fructus... — A construction where the relative pronouns incorporate their antecedents (equivalent to eam impensam quam... eosue fructus quos...). The entire clause functions as the direct object of the subsequent infinitive consecuturum [esse].
  4. §17.2.38.1altera actione alteram tolli — Part of the accusative and infinitive (A.c.I.) construction depending on the main verb ait. alteram is the subject accusative ("the other action"), tolli is the present passive infinitive ("to be barred/extinguished"), and altera actione is the ablative of means ("by the one action").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.38.pr-17.2.38.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.38.pr-17.2.38.1

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