Manumission by a Father Before a Son Serving as Praetor

Notes

1. §1.14.1.prfilium familias — Accusative of filius familias ('son of a family'), referring to a son subject to paternal power (patria potestas). Under Roman law, although a filius familias was subject to paternal authority in private law, he was fully capable in public law of holding magistracies such as the praetorship. While a father generally could not perform legal acts before his own dependent son due to the nature of paternal power, an exception was made when the son acted in his public capacity as a praetor.
2. §1.14.1.prapud — A preposition governing the accusative, meaning here 'before' or 'in the presence of' a magistrate exercising his jurisdiction. It specifically refers to formal manumission (manumissio vindicta) performed before a praetor.