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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.21.pr

Status of a Self-Sold Freeman upon Manumission

Passage 85 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states the rule that a free man who sold himself into slavery does not, upon later manumission, regain his original freeborn status, but instead becomes a freedman.

[MODESTINUS libro septimo regularum. ] §1.5.21.prHomo liber, qui se uendidit, manumissus non ad suum statum reuertitur, quo se abdicauit, sed efficitur libertinae condicionis.
[MODESTINUS, in the seventh book of Rules.] A free man who has sold himself, when manumitted, does not return to his own status which he renounced, but becomes of the condition of a freedman.

Notes

  1. §1.5.21.prquo se abdicauit — The relative pronoun `quo` (ablative singular masculine) refers to the antecedent `suum statum`. The verb `abdicare` with the reflexive pronoun `se` takes the ablative to mean "to renounce [something]," which governs the relative pronoun here.
  2. §1.5.21.prlibertinae condicionis — A genitive of quality (genitivus qualitatis), functioning as the predicate of the passive verb `efficitur` ("is made" or "becomes").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.5.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.5.21.pr

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