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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.2.31.pr

Death of Redeemed Slave and Continuation of Arbiter Duty

Passage 1669 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that even if a pledged slave, who was common property, dies after being redeemed by one of the heirs, the office of the arbiter continues on the basis of the pre-existing cause of common ownership.

[PAPINIANUS libro septimo quaestionum. ] §10.2.31.prSi seruus pignori obligatus luatur ab uno ex heredibus, quamuis postea decedat, officium tamen arbitri durat: sufficit enim communionis causa quae praecessit quaeque hodie duraret, si res non intercidisset.
[PAPINIANUS libro septimo quaestionum.] If a slave pledged as security is redeemed by one of the heirs, even if the slave should die afterwards, the office of the arbiter nevertheless continues; for the cause of common ownership which preceded, and which would still continue today if the thing had not perished, is sufficient.

Notes

  1. §10.2.31.prduraret, si res non intercidisset — This is a mixed conditional sentence expressing a counterfactual situation with different times: the past hypothesis in the subjunctive pluperfect (intercidisset, "if the thing had not perished") and the present result in the subjunctive imperfect (duraret, "it would still continue today").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.2.31.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.2.31.pr

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