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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.18.17.pr

Validity of Governor's Acts Before Knowing of Successor

Passage 219 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is stated that legal acts, such as manumitting a slave or appointing a guardian, performed by a provincial governor before learning of his successor's arrival, remain valid.

[CELSUS libro tertio digestorum. ] §1.18.17.prSi forte praeses prouinciae manumiserit uel tutorem dederit, priusquam cognouerit successorem aduenisse, erunt haec rata.
[CELSUS, in the third book of the Digests.] If by chance a governor of a province has manumitted a slave or appointed a guardian, before he knew that his successor had arrived, these acts shall be valid.

Notes

  1. 1.18.17.prmanumiserit ... dederit ... cognouerit — These are all future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) verbs, indicating actions completed prior to the future action of the main verb erunt. The direct object of manumiserit (a slave) is omitted but understood from the context.
  2. 1.18.17.prsuccessorem aduenisse — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of cognouerit. successorem is the subject accusative and aduenisse (perfect active infinitive) is the infinitive, meaning 'that the successor had arrived'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.18.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.17.pr

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