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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.1.8.pr

Exclusion of Concubines and Natural Children from Pledges

Passage 2921 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the legal rule that a concubine, natural children, foster-children, and others performing similar services are not included in a general pledge.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §20.1.8.prDenique concubinam filios naturales alumnos constitit generali obligatione non contineri et si qua alia sunt huiusmodi ministeria.
[ULPIANUS, in the seventy-third book on the Edict.] Finally, it is established that a concubine, natural children, foster-children, and any other persons performing similar services are not included in a general pledge.

Notes

  1. §20.1.8.prconstitit — Perfect tense of the impersonal verb constat ("it is established"), which governs the accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction concubinam ... non contineri.
  2. §20.1.8.prgenerali obligatione — Meaning "by a general obligation," referring here to a "general pledge" or general mortgage encompassing the debtor's entire property.
  3. §20.1.8.prministeria — Accusative plural of the neuter noun ministerium ("service"). Here, the abstract noun is used concretely to refer to "persons who perform services" (such as household members or servants).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.1.8.pr

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