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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §11.3.13.pr-11.3.13.1

Transmissibility and Corrupting an Estate Slave

Passage 1783 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is explained that the action for corrupting a slave is perpetual and active-transmissible but not passive-transmissible, and that corrupting a slave of an inheritance triggers liability both under this action and as a plunderer under a petition for inheritance.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §11.3.13.prHaec actio perpetua est, non temporaria: et heredi ceterisque successoribus competit, in heredem non dabitur, quia poenalis est.
[ULPIANUS, from the twenty-third book on the Edict.] This action is perpetual, not temporary; and it is available to an heir and other successors, but it will not be granted against an heir, because it is penal.
§11.3.13.1Sed et si quis seruum hereditarium corruperit, hac actione tenebitur: sed et petitione hereditatis quasi praedo tenebitur,
But also if anyone corrupts a slave belonging to an inheritance, he will be liable under this action; but he will also be liable under a petition for inheritance as a plunderer,

Notes

  1. §11.3.13.prin heredem non dabitur — In contrast to the dative 'heredi' (to the heir) in the preceding clause, 'in' with the accusative 'heredem' expresses the passive party ('against the heir'). This reflects the classical legal principle that a penal action (actio poenalis) is not available against the heir of the wrongdoer.
  2. §11.3.13.1quasi praedo — Meaning 'as a plunderer'. It indicates that a person who interferes with a slave belonging to an inheritance will be held liable under the petition for inheritance (petitio hereditatis) to the same strict extent as a possessor in bad faith (praedo).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §11.3.13.pr-11.3.13.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:11.3.13.pr-11.3.13.1

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