- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
This text discusses an equitable relief for an heir-designate who had already fulfilled a condition to manumit a slave before the testament was declared void, allowing them to recover the value of the slave from the manumitted person.
[IDEM libro octauo disputationum.]
[BY THE SAME AUTHOR in his Eighth Book of Disputations.]
Si sub hac condicione fuerit heres institutus 'si Stichum manumiserit' et manumisisset,1 et posteaquam manumisit inofficiosum uel iniustum testamentum pronuntietur: aequum est huic quoque succurri,2 ut serui pretium a manumisso accipiat, ne frustra seruum perdat.
If someone was instituted heir under this condition, “if he should manumit Stichus,” and he had manumitted him, and after he manumitted him, the testament is declared inofficious or unjust: it is equitable that relief should be granted to this person also, so that he may receive the price of the slave from the manumitted person, lest he lose the slave in vain.
- 5.2.26.prmanumisisset
The subjunctive pluperfect in the conditional clause, representing a past factual assumption that the condition for the institution of the heir (the manumission of Stichus) had already been fulfilled, whereas the subsequent declaration pronuntietur is in the present subjunctive.
- 5.2.26.prsuccurri
The passive infinitive of the intransitive verb succurrere (to run to help, relieve) which governs the dative. It is used impersonally, with the recipient of the relief expressed by the dative huic. Together, it forms the subject clause of aequum est.