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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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This section provides an exception stating that if a praetor is a filius familias (a son of a family), his father is permitted to manumit a slave before him.
[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo sexto ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIANUS, in his twenty-sixth book On Sabinus.]
Apud1 filium familias2 praetorem potest pater eius manumittere.
Before a son of a family who is a praetor, his father can manumit a slave.
- 1.14.1.prapud
A preposition governing the accusative, meaning here 'before' or 'in the presence of' a magistrate exercising his jurisdiction. It specifically refers to formal manumission (manumissio vindicta) performed before a praetor.
- 1.14.1.prfilium familias
Accusative of filius familias ('son of a family'), referring to a son subject to paternal power (patria potestas). Under Roman law, although a filius familias was subject to paternal authority in private law, he was fully capable in public law of holding magistracies such as the praetorship. While a father generally could not perform legal acts before his own dependent son due to the nature of paternal power, an exception was made when the son acted in his public capacity as a praetor.