- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
This section explains that a slave ransomed with his own money is freed from the moment of ransom under imperial constitution, and details the legal remedies if the purchaser avoids his duty of manumission by keeping out of the way.
[IDEM libro sexto disputationum.]
[THE SAME, in the Sixth Book of Disputations.]
Qui se dicit suis nummis redemptum, si hoc probauerit, exinde liber erit ex quo redemptus est, quia constitutio non liberum pronuntiari1 praecipit, sed restitui ei libertatem iubet. proinde compellendus erit2 manumittere eum qui se suis nummis redemit. sed et si latitet,3 exempla senatus consultorum ad fideicommissam libertatem pertinentium debere induci oportet.
He who says that he has been ransomed with his own money, if he proves this, shall be free from the time when he was ransomed; for the constitution does not direct that he be declared free, but orders that his freedom be restored to him. Consequently, the purchaser shall be compelled to manumit the person who ransomed himself with his own money. But, even if the purchaser should keep out of the way, the precedents of the decrees of the Senate relating to trust-bequests of freedom must be applied.
- 5.1.67.prliberum pronuntiari
The accusative 'liberum' acts as the subject of the passive infinitive 'pronuntiari'. It refers to a declaratory judgment that the person was already free, contrasted with 'restitui ei libertatem', which means restoring the state of freedom through active restitution (manumission).
- 5.1.67.prcompellendus erit
The subject of this periphrastic conjugation is omitted but refers contextually to the 'purchaser' (or master) who received the ransom money and is thus obliged to manumit the slave. This implied subject is the active agent of the subsequent infinitive 'manumittere'.
- 5.1.67.prsi latitet
The subject of the subjunctive 'latitet' is the purchaser (or master) who keeps out of the way to evade the duty of manumission. The subjunctive mood is used to present a hypothetical scenario.