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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §15.1.8.pr

Delivery for Peculium Creation and Termination by Will

Passage 2267 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that a master's mere intention does not establish a peculium without a natural delivery, whereas the termination of a peculium occurs immediately upon the master's change of mind.

[PAULUS libro quarto ad Sabinum. ] §15.1.8.prNon statim quod dominus uoluit ex re sua peculii esse, peculium fecit, sed si tradidit aut, cum apud eum esset, pro tradito habuit: desiderat enim res naturalem dationem.
[PAULUS libro quarto ad Sabinum.] A master does not immediately make into a peculium that which he wished to belong to the peculium out of his own property, but only if he has delivered it or, if it was already with the slave, has held it as delivered; for the matter requires a natural delivery.
contra autem simul atque noluit, peculium serui desinit peculium esse.
On the other hand, as soon as he does not want it to be, the slave's peculium ceases to be a peculium.

Notes

  1. §15.1.8.prquod dominus uoluit ex re sua peculii esse — The pronoun quod is a relative pronoun implying its antecedent, forming a clause that serves as the direct object of fecit. peculii is a genitive of possession or characteristic acting as the predicate of esse.
  2. §15.1.8.prapud eum — The pronoun eum refers to the slave (seruus), not the master (dominus) who is the subject. It describes a case of fictitious delivery (traditio breui manu) where the property is already in the slave's possession.
  3. §15.1.8.prres — The noun res here refers not merely to a physical thing but to the transaction or matter of establishing a peculium. Therefore, it requires a factual (naturalem) act of delivery (dationem) rather than a mere expression of intent.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §15.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:15.1.8.pr

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