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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.31.pr

Slaves Reserved for Wards Remaining in Common Ownership

Passage 1726 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text addresses the legal status of two slaves reserved from a paternal inheritance by praetorian order for the pupils' service, ruling that they are not divided but remain common property.

[PAULUS libro quinto decimo responsorum. ] §10.3.31.prBina mancipia, quae ex hereditate paterna iussu praetoris pupillis ministerii causa reseruata essent, diuisa non uideri, sed omnium communia permansisse.
[PAULUS, Opinions, book XV.] Two slaves, who had been reserved from the paternal inheritance by order of the praetor for the service of the pupils, were held not to be deemed divided, but to have remained the common property of all.

Notes

  1. §10.3.31.prdiuisa non uideri, sed omnium communia permansisse — This is an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction in indirect speech, typical of legal responses where the main governing verb (such as responsum est) is omitted. Bina mancipia acts as the subject accusative, while uideri and permansisse are the infinitives.
  2. §10.3.31.prpupillis — Dative of advantage (dativus commodi), indicating the persons (the pupils) for whose benefit and service the slaves were reserved.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.31.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.31.pr

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