- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.17.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
It is stated that legal acts, such as manumitting a slave or appointing a guardian, performed by a provincial governor before learning of his successor's arrival, remain valid.
[CELSUS libro tertio digestorum.]
[CELSUS, in the third book of the Digests.]
Si forte praeses prouinciae manumiserit uel tutorem dederit, priusquam cognouerit1 successorem aduenisse,2 erunt haec rata.
If by chance a governor of a province has manumitted a slave or appointed a guardian, before he knew that his successor had arrived, these acts shall be valid.
- 1.18.17.prmanumiserit ... dederit ... cognouerit
These are all future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) verbs, indicating actions completed prior to the future action of the main verb erunt. The direct object of manumiserit (a slave) is omitted but understood from the context.
- 1.18.17.prsuccessorem aduenisse
An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of cognouerit. successorem is the subject accusative and aduenisse (perfect active infinitive) is the infinitive, meaning 'that the successor had arrived'.