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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.5.7.pr

Remedies for Failure to Manumit After Payment

Passage 2894 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian discusses that if money is given on the condition of manumitting a slave and the recipient fails to perform, the giver can immediately bring an action with prescribed words for the amount of their interest, or a condictio for the return of the money if there is no interest.

[PAPINIANUS libro secundo quaestionum. ] §19.5.7.prSi tibi decem dedero, ut Stichum manumittas, et cessaueris, confestim agam praescriptis uerbis, ut soluas quanti mea interest: aut, si nihil interest, condicam tibi, ut decem reddas.
[PAPINIANUS in the second book of Questions.] If I give you ten so that you manumit Stichus, and you fail to do so, I will immediately bring an action with prescribed words for you to pay the amount of my interest; or, if there is no interest, I will bring a condictio against you for you to return the ten.

Notes

  1. §19.5.7.prquanti mea interest — The impersonal verb interest takes the ablative feminine singular of the possessive pronoun (mea) to indicate the party concerned, and the genitive of value (quanti) to express the degree or amount of interest. Here, it refers to the value of the expectation interest (the benefit the plaintiff would have received had the contract been performed).
  2. §19.5.7.prcondicam — The verb condicere (future tense) means to bring a condictio, a strict civil law action for the recovery of something held by another without legal cause (unjust enrichment).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.5.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.5.7.pr

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