- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
Explains that if land occupied by the enemy or a captured slave is liberated, the usufruct is restored by the right of postliminium.
[PAULUS libro primo ad Neratium.]
[PAULUS in the first book on Neratius.]
Si ager ab hostibus occupatus seruusue captus liberatus fuerit,1 iure postliminii2 restituetur usus fructus.
If land occupied by the enemy, or a slave who has been captured, should be liberated, the usufruct will be restored by the right of postliminium.
- 7.4.26.prliberatus fuerit
Although the passive future perfect verb is singular, it applies to both subjects connected by ue ("or"), namely ager (land, masculine singular) and seruus (slave, masculine singular). The verb liberare ("to liberate") refers to the land being freed from enemy occupation and the slave being released from captivity.
- 7.4.26.priure postliminii
Meaning "by the right of postliminium." This refers to the Roman legal doctrine under which rights of citizenship and property, temporarily lost or suspended when captured by enemies, are retroactively restored upon return to Roman territory or liberation.