Antonino Milazzo
The research addresses one of the most problematic issues in the field of the roman contract of society: as for the death off the socius, the dissolution of the society: as for the death of the socius, the dissolution of the society is generally taken for granted in literature. In fact, this is a consolidated datum in doctrine, which seems to find its origin in what Gaius tells us (Gai. 3.152: Solvitur adhuc societas etiam morte socii, quia qui societatem contrahit certam personam sibi eligit) and which appears confirmed in the Institutions of Justinian (I.3.25.5: Solvitur adhuc societas etiam morte socii, quia qui societatem contrahit, certam personam sibi elegit. Sed et si consensu plurium societas coita sit, morte unius socii solvitur etsi plures supersint, nisi si in coeunda societate aliter convenerit). In this work, this consolidated thesis is questioned, putting forward the doubt that for Roman jurists the mors socii did not involve the end of the society, but only the ban on the sub-entry of the heir of the deceased socius.