Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.13.pr

Status of an Acquitted Slave in a Capital Trial

Passage 77 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provides that a slave committed by their master to a capital trial does not become free, even if they are acquitted.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum. ] §1.5.13.prSeruus in causa capitali fortunae iudici a domino commissus, etsi fuerit absolutus, non fit liber.

[HERMOGENIANUS, in the first book of the Epitomes of Law.] A slave who, in a capital case, has been committed by his master to fortune and to the judge, does not become free, even if he has been acquitted.

Notes

§1.5.13.prfortunae iudici — These are datives dependent on 'commissus' (committed). They can be interpreted as two parallel datives, 'to fortune' (fortunae) and 'to the judge' (iudici), or as synonymous with the variant reading 'fortunae iudicii' (to the fortune of the trial). This translation follows the spelling of the provided text and interprets them as parallel terms.

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