Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.64.pr

Dissolution of Partnership by Partners Acting Individually

Passage 2567 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the partnership is naturally dissolved when partners begin to act individually and conduct business for themselves.

[CALLISTRATUS libro primo quaestionum. ] §17.2.64.prItaque cum separatim socii agere coeperint et unusquisque eorum sibi negotietur, sine dubio ius societatis dissoluitur.

[CALLISTRATUS libro primo quaestionum.] Therefore, when the partners have begun to act separately and each one of them conducts business for himself, the partnership relationship is undoubtedly dissolved.

Notes

17.2.64.prcoeperint ... negotietur — The variation in tense within the cum-clause (coeperint is perfect/future perfect, whereas negotietur is present subjunctive) indicates a temporal and logical progression: first, they have begun to act separately (an initiated and completed change of state), and as a consequence, each is conducting business for himself (an ongoing current state).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.64.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.64.pr

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