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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.46.pr

Application of Concurrence of Actions to Managers and Guardians

Passage 2548 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section shows that the principle of the concurrence of actions (delictual and contractual/quasi-contractual) explained in the previous section also applies to tenant farmers, managers of affairs, mandataries, and guardians.

[PAULUS libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §17.2.46.prIdem est et in colono et in eo qui negotia gerit et qui mandatum nostrum exsequitur et in tutore.
[PAULUS, in his sixth book on Sabinus.] The same is true also in the case of a tenant farmer, and of one who manages affairs, and of one who executes our mandate, and of a guardian.

Notes

  1. §17.2.46.pridem est — Meaning "the same holds true". This refers to the principle of the concurrence of actions established in the preceding section (§17.2.45.pr), according to which both an action for theft (actio furti) and an action based on a contractual or quasi-contractual relationship (bonae fidei iudicia) can be brought, with neither extinguishing the other.
  2. §17.2.46.prin eo qui negotia gerit et qui mandatum nostrum exsequitur — The ablative pronoun `eo` (object of the preposition `in`) serves as the antecedent for two parallel relative clauses: `qui negotia gerit` and `[qui] mandatum nostrum exsequitur` (with `eo` being shared or implied for the second clause). These refer respectively to the manager of affairs in a quasi-contractual relationship (negotiorum gestio) and the mandatary in a contractual relationship (mandatum).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.46.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.46.pr

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