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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.45.pr

Concurrent Actions for Theft and pro socio

Passage 2547 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that both an action for theft and the action pro socio can be brought against a partner who maliciously removes or conceals common property without mutually excluding each other, a principle applicable to all bonae fidei judgements.

[IDEM libro trigensimo ad Sabinum. ] §17.2.45.prRei communis nomine cum socio furti agi potest, si per fallaciam doloue malo amouit uel rem communem celandi animo contrectet: sed et pro socio actione obstrictus est, nec altera actio alteram tollet.
[THE SAME, in his thirtieth book on Sabinus.] On the account of a common property, an action for theft can be brought against a partner, if through deceit or malicious intent he has removed it, or if he handles the common property with the intention of concealing it; but he is also liable to the action pro socio, and neither action extinguishes the other.
idemque in omnibus bonae fidei iudiciis dicendum est.
And the same must be said in all bonae fidei judgements.

Notes

  1. §17.2.45.prfurti — A genitive of charge (genitiuus criminis) used with the passive infinitive `agi` (and its active form `agere`) to denote the charge or cause of action (theft).
  2. §17.2.45.prceland_i — A gerund in the genitive case, modifying the noun `animo` (with the intention) to express the purpose or nature ("with the intention of concealing").
  3. §17.2.45.prpro socio actione — An ablative of means or cause modifying the participle/adjective `obstrictus` (bound, liable).
  4. §17.2.45.prdicendum est — A gerundive of obligation used predicatively with the neuter pronoun `idem` (the same thing) as its subject, meaning "must be said" or "is to be applied".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.45.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.45.pr

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