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§9.4.35.pr

Liability of Condemned Son and Father's Peculium Responsibility

It explains the obligation of the condemned son himself and the subsequent liability of the father to the extent of the peculium.

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[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo primo ad Sabinum.]

[ULPIANUS, on Sabinus, Book XLI.]

§9.4.35.pr

​et si condemnatus fuerit,1 filius iudicatum facere2 debet: tenet enim condemnatio. quin immo etiam illud3 dicendum est patrem quoque post condemnationem filii dumtaxat de peculio4 posse conueniri.

​And if he is condemned, the son must satisfy the judgment; for the condemnation holds. Nay, indeed, it must also be said that after the condemnation of the son, the father too can be sued, only to the extent of the peculium.

Syntax notes4 items
  1. 9.4.35.prcondemnatus fuerit

    Future perfect passive. In the conditional clause, it expresses an event that must be completed prior to the action of the main clause. The subject is filius from the context.

  2. 9.4.35.priudicatum facere

    A technical legal idiom in Roman law, literally meaning 'to perform what has been judged', i.e., to satisfy the judgment or pay the judgment debt.

  3. 9.4.35.prillud

    Subject of dicendum est, functioning as a proleptic pronoun pointing forward to the accusative-with-infinitive clause patrem ... posse conueniri.

  4. 9.4.35.prdumtaxat de peculio

    The restrictive adverb dumtaxat ('only to the extent of') limits the father's liability after his son's condemnation to the value of the son's peculium.

Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-07-12) · No revisions to the English translation or the originalurn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.4.35.pr