Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.60.pr-17.2.60.1
Interest on Delayed Profits and Incidental Expenses
Summary
This section discusses the obligation to pay interest on delayed returns of partnership profit (which is excused if funds were unused or no delay occurred) and dissolution, explaining that indirect expenses or gains incurred merely on account of the partnership, such as treatment for injuries from stopping escaping common slaves, are excluded from the partnership action and the common fund.
Notes
- §17.2.60.prsocii intersit — The impersonal verb `intersit` takes the genitive (`socii`) of the person who is interested. Although `socii` is singular ('of the partner'), in this context it refers to the interest of the other partner (or the partnership as a whole).
- §17.2.60.prSocium, qui... reddendo moram adhibuit... cum ea pecunia ipse usus sit, usuras quoque eum praestare debere — The word `Socium` at the beginning of the sentence, after being modified by the relative clause `qui...` and temporal clause `cum...`, is picked up again by `eum` as the subject accusative of the infinitive `debere`, representing a case of prolepsis or syntactic redundancy.
- §17.2.60.1non in societatem, quamuis propter societatem inpensum sit — Contrast between the prepositions `in` (for/into, representing direct investment) and `propter` (on account of/because of, representing indirect or consequential cause). It strictly distinguishes between expenses incurred directly on the partnership and those incurred merely on account of the partnership.
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.60.pr-17.2.60.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.60.pr-17.2.60.1
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