For what answer can you make to this case, O Fannius? When Roscius
 settled with Flavius for his own share, did he leave you your right of action, or not?
 If he did not leave it you, how was it that you afterwards exacted a hundred thousand
 sesterces from him? If he did leave it, why do you claim
 from him what you ought to demand and follow up yourself? For partnership is very like
 inheritance, and, as it were, its twin sister. As a partner has a share in a
 partnership, so an heir has a share in an inheritance. As an heir prefers a claim for
 himself alone, and not for his co-heirs, so a partner prefers a claim for himself alone,
 and not for his partners. And as each prefers a claim for his own share, so he makes
 payments for his share alone; the heir, out of the share which he has received of the
 inheritance the partner, out of that property with which he entered into the
 partnership.