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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.3.5.pr

Punishment for Creditor Accepting Son in Power as Pledge

Passage 2963 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It prescribes that a creditor who knowingly accepts a son under paternal power as a pledge from his parent shall be relegated.

[IDEM libro quinto sententiarum. ] §20.3.5.prCreditor, qui sciens filium familias a parente pignori accepit, relegatur.
[THE SAME, in his fifth book of Opinions.] A creditor who, knowingly, accepts a son under paternal power as a pledge from his parent, is relegated.

Notes

  1. §20.3.5.prsciens — The present participle sciens (nominative singular masculine) modifies the relative pronoun qui (and thus the main subject Creditor), functioning adverbially to mean "knowingly." It indicates that subjective knowledge (intent) that the person pledged is a "son under paternal power" (filium familias) is a requirement for the offense.
  2. §20.3.5.prfilium familias — familias is an archaic genitive singular form of the first-declension noun familia (instead of the classical -ae), forming the compound legal term filius familias meaning "a son under paternal power."
  3. §20.3.5.prpignori — The dative singular of the third-declension noun pignus (pledge), functioning as a "dative of purpose" with accepit to express the capacity or purpose: "accepted as a pledge."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.3.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.3.5.pr

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