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§9.4.6.pr

Freed Slave's Own Liability for Past Delicts

Explains that the manumitted slave himself is also held liable for a delict committed while in slavery.

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[IDEM libro octauo decimo ad edictum.]

[THE SAME, Book 18 on the Edict]

§9.4.6.pr

​Sed et ipse seruus manumissus1 tenetur.

​But the manumitted slave himself is also held liable.

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  1. 9.4.6.pripse seruus manumissus

    The perfect participle manumissus (manumitted) modifies seruus (slave), and together with the intensive pronoun ipse (himself), indicates that once the slave is freed, the liability for a delict committed during slavery shifts to the former slave himself.

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