- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.17.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
It stipulates that if an owner kills his own slave, he will be liable to a possessor in good faith or a pledgee under an action on the case.
[ULPIANUS libro octauo decimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIAN, from the eighteenth book on the Edict.]
Si dominus seruum suum occiderit, bonae fidei possessori uel ei qui pignori accepit1 in factum actione tenebitur.2
If an owner kills his own slave, he will be liable to a possessor in good faith or to one who received the slave in pledge under an action on the case.
- 9.2.17.prpignori accepit
The dative pignori (from pignus) functions as a dative of purpose or end, forming a close idiomatic expression with accipere meaning "to receive as a pledge".
- 9.2.17.prbonae fidei possessori uel ei ... tenebitur
tenebitur (future passive of tenere) is used with the dative to indicate "to be liable to [someone]". Here, the possessor in good faith (possessori) and the pledgee (ei) are indicated in the dative as the parties entitled to bring the action against the owner's wrongful act.