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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.1.4.pr

The Master's Liability and Noxal Surrender for Thefts by Slaves

Passage 2052 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It discusses the scope of the condictio against a master when a slave or a filius familias commits a theft, and the master's option of noxal surrender for the residue.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §13.1.4.prSi seruus uel filius familias furtum commiserit, condicendum est domino id quod ad eum peruenit: in residuum noxae seruum dominus dedere potest.
[ULPIANUS, in his forty-first book on Sabinus.] If a slave or a filius familias commits a theft, a condictio must be brought against the master for that which has come to him; as for the residue, the master can surrender the slave for the damage.

Notes

  1. §13.1.4.prdomino — The dative domino here indicates the party against whom the condictio is brought ('against the master'), rather than the agent of the gerundive condicendum est ('by the master').
  2. §13.1.4.prnoxae ... dedere — The phrase noxae dedere is a legal term meaning 'to surrender for the damage' (noxal surrender), whereby a master escapes liability by handing over the offending slave or animal. noxae is analyzed as a dative of purpose.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.1.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.1.4.pr

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