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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.27.pr

Adoption by a Patron and Freeborn Status

Passage 91 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States the legal rule that a patron cannot make a freedman freeborn even by adopting him.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto opinionum. ] §1.5.27.prEum, qui se libertinum esse fatetur, nec adoptando patronus ingenuum facere potuit.
[ULPIANUS, in the fifth book of Opinions.] A patron, even by adopting him, could not make a person who confesses that he is a freedman freeborn.

Notes

  1. §1.5.27.prEum, qui se libertinum esse fatetur — Eum is the direct object of the infinitive facere (governed by potuit) in the main clause, and also serves as the antecedent of the relative clause qui... . The phrase se... esse is an accusative with infinitive construction acting as the object of fatetur.
  2. §1.5.27.prnec adoptando — adoptando is an ablative gerund expressing means ('by adopting'). Combined with the negative particle nec, it yields the emphatic meaning 'not even by adopting' (equivalent to ne... quidem).
  3. §1.5.27.pringenuum — ingenuum (freeborn) is the object complement (the second accusative of a double accusative construction) of the verb facere, indicating the resulting status of the direct object Eum (the freedman).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.5.27.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.5.27.pr

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