Theses de societate

profits arise, whether sought from work and labor or coming from an external source, they must be shared.

XII.

Hence, an inheritance, a legacy, a gift, and whatever is acquired by any means will be held in common.

XIII.

So much so that if there are corporeal things, they are shared immediately without any delivery; if they are actions and debts, they are shared through assignment and the performance of the actions.

IIII.

But if it has been contracted simply and indefinitely, it is considered to have been initiated only regarding those things that arise from gain, that is, from the work of the partners.

XV.

Although in a partnership of a certain thing or business, only those things come to be shared which accrue to the partners from that thing or business.

XVI.

Emperor Severus referring to Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor ruled that things acquired outside of that matter or business are not to be shared.

XVII.

Furthermore, the manner of a partnership is usually constituted in various ways: namely, so that either both contribute a thing or money, or one contributes money and the other contributes labor.