- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
The author explains that the praetor should order the transfer of the trial to the statuliber, and that if freedom is still in suspense at the time of judgment, the heir is released by delivering the slave.
[GAIUS libro sexto ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS, Book 6 on the Provincial Edict]
Praetor decernere debet translationem iudicii in statuliberum fieri:1 si uero rei iudicandae2 tempore adhuc in suspenso sit statuta libertas, Sabinus et Cassius liberari heredem putant tradendo seruum, quia toto suo iure cederet:3 quod et uerum est.
The praetor ought to decree that the transfer of the trial to the statuliber should take place. But if, at the time of the judgment, the provisionally granted freedom is still in suspense, Sabinus and Cassius think that the heir is released by delivering the slave, because he would yield all his own right; which is indeed true.
- 9.4.15.prtranslationem iudicii in statuliberum fieri
When the condition of the statuliber is fulfilled and he becomes free, the noxal action is transferred from the heir of the master to the now free person himself, in accordance with the principle "noxa caput sequitur" (the guilt follows the person). The preposition in indicates the target of the transfer.
- 9.4.15.prrei iudicandae
Genitive of the gerundive, modifying tempore (time), meaning "the time when the matter is to be judged," i.e., "at the time of judgment."
- 9.4.15.prcederet
Imperfect subjunctive. Used in the subordinate clause (quia clause) reporting the reason alleged by Sabinus and Cassius (the subjunctive of reported reason).