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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.75.pr

Invalidity of Partnership if Designated Arbiter Dies

Passage 2579 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Celsus explains that a partnership agreement conditioned on shares to be determined by a third party (Titius) becomes void if he dies before making the determination.

[CELSUS libro quinto decimo digestorum. ] §17.2.75.prSi coita sit societas ex his partibus, quas Titius arbitratus fuerit, si Titius antequam arbitraretur decesserit, nihil agitur: nam id ipsum actum est, ne aliter societas sit, quam ut Titius arbitratus sit.
[CELSUS, in the fifteenth book of the Digests.] If a partnership has been entered into on the basis of such shares as Titius should determine, and if Titius dies before he makes the determination, nothing is effected; for this very thing was agreed, that the partnership should not exist otherwise than as Titius should have determined.

Notes

  1. §17.2.75.prnihil agitur — "Nothing is done/effected", a legal idiom meaning that the transaction is void or produces no legal effect.
  2. §17.2.75.prid ipsum actum est, ne... — 'actum est' (perfect passive of 'agere') here means "was agreed upon" or "was intended". The 'ne' clause functions as a noun clause explaining the content of 'id ipsum' ("namely, that the partnership should not exist otherwise than...").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.75.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.75.pr

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