Note in tema di societas venaliciaria

The societas unius alicuius negotiationis, represented an organizational model well suited for the realization of the slave trade undertaken by the venaliciarii. In the imperial age, as attested by Gaius (3.148), the societas venaliciaria appears as a society whose characteristics will be peculiar to the type of negotiatio undertaken by the members, and which, also following the reflections of the jurisprudence, will be connoted according to some principles founding that will take into account both the requirements of the venaliciarii socii, and of the third party contractors, who, thanks to the confirmation of the exception to the general principle of external irrelevance of the corporate relationship towards third parties, may be protected under the edict adversus venaliciarios contained in the edict of the aediles curuli (D. 21.1.44.1). The recognition by the jurisconsults of the external relevance of the societas venaliciaria will have the effect of placing it on the same level as the other commercial companies in the preeminent public interest, such as the society of the publicani, of the argentarii and of the shipowners.