Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation IX: On the Contract of Partnership
ALTHOUGH there are various kinds of Societies — for Societies are entered into in taking up Tax-farms, in executing offices, and in dispensing other goods — yet that is called Society simply which is occupied with lucrative, and profitable return from letting, selling, and the like: Wherefore, although such a contract concerns all goods, nevertheless Society is not understood to be entered into simply of them; but of the foregoing lucrative one, as Bonacina rightly admonishes disp. 3. de contract. quaest. 6. unless the wills of the contracting parties have otherwise declared themselves, leg. quaestus, ff. pro socio, to be cited below.
De Contractu Societatis.
LICET Societatum varia sint genera, in suscipiendis enim Vectigalibus, in exequendis officiis, et in caeteris bonis dispensandis Societas initur; illa tamen simpliciter Societas vocatur, quae versatur circa proventum lucratorium, et quaestuosum ex locatione, venditione, et similibus : Quare quamvis sit talis contractus circa omnia bona, non tamen de eo intelligitur Societas simpliciter inita; sed de praecedenti lucratorio, ut recte monet Bonacina disp. 3. de contract. quaest. 6. nisi aliter voluntates contrahentium se declaraverint, leg. quaestus, ff. pro socio, infra citanda.
Within this disputation
- Question I: In what the contract of partnership consists, and what is required that it be just
- Question II: Whether, and how, other contracts can be united with the contract of partnership
- Question III: Whether a contract by which, the capital being secured, a certain fixed gain is received each year is lawful