Ad edictum provinciale libri
Ex libro XXX
Dig. 12,2,31Gaius libro trigensimo ad edictum provinciale. Admonendi sumus interdum etiam post iusiurandum exactum permitti constitutionibus principum ex integro causam agere, si quis nova instrumenta se invenisse dicat, quibus nunc solis usurus sit. sed hae constitutiones tunc videntur locum habere, cum a iudice aliquis absolutus fuerit (solent enim saepe iudices in dubiis causis exacto iureiurando secundum eum iudicare qui iuraverit): quod si alias inter ipsos iureiurando transactum sit negotium, non conceditur eandem causam retractare.
Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book XXX. We must remember that sometimes, even after the oath has been exacted, it is permitted by the Imperial Constitutions to have recourse to ordinary proceedings, where the party interested alleges that new documents have been found which he now only desires to use. These Constitutions are held to be available solely where a party has been discharged by the court; for judges, after requiring an oath, are frequently accustomed to render a decision in favor of the party who was sworn; but where the matter has been settled between the parties by means of an oath, it is not permitted for the same case to be reheard.
Dig. 44,2,15Gaius libro trigensimo ad edictum provinciale. Si inter me et te controversia de hereditate sit et quasdam res ex eadem tu possides, quasdam ego: nihil vetat et me a te et invicem te a me hereditatem petere. quod si post rem iudicatam a me petere coeperis, interest, utrum meam esse hereditatem pronuntiatum sit an contra: si meam esse, nocebit tibi rei iudicatae exceptio, quia eo ipso, quod meam esse pronuntiatum est, ex diverso pronuntiatum videtur tuam non esse: si vero meam non esse, nihil de tuo iure iudicatum intellegitur, quia potest nec mea hereditas esse nec tua.
Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book XXX. Where a suit involving an estate is pending between you and myself, and you have in your possession some property belonging to said estate, and I also have some, there is nothing to prevent me from bringing an action against you to recover the estate, and, on the other hand, nothing to prevent you from bringing an action against me for the same purpose. If, however, after the case has been disposed of, you bring such an action against me, it will be necessary to ascertain whether the estate was adjudged to be mine or yours. If it was decided to be mine, the exception on the ground of res judicata will operate as a bar against you; because, for the very reason that judgment has been rendered in my favor, and the estate found to belong to me, it has been decided not to be yours. If, however, it has been found not to belong to me, nothing is understood to have been determined with reference to your title to it, because it may be that the estate does not belong to either of us.
Dig. 44,2,17Gaius libro trigensimo ad edictum provinciale. Si rem meam a te petiero, tu autem ideo fueris absolutus, quod probaveris sine dolo malo te desisse possidere, deinde postea coeperis possidere et ego a te petam: non nocebit mihi exceptio rei iudicatae.
Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book XXX. If I bring suit against you to recover property which belongs to me, and you are discharged from all liability because you proved that you have ceased to hold possession of said property, without any fraud on your part; and then, after you have obtained possession of said property a second time, I again bring an action against you, an exception on the ground of res judicata cannot effectually be interposed against me.
Dig. 44,4,6Gaius libro trigensimo ad edictum provinciale. Si opera creditoris acciderit, ut debitor pecuniam, quam soluturus erat, perderet, exceptione doli mali creditor removebitur. idem est et si creditori eius numeratam pecuniam ratam creditor non habeat.
Ad Dig. 44,4,6Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. II, § 342, Note 12.Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book XXX. If, through the agency of a creditor, his debtor should happen to lose the money which he was about to pay him, the creditor will be barred by an exception on the ground of fraud. The same rule will apply when the creditor does not ratify the payment of money by his debtor to his own creditor.