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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.47.pr-21.1.47.1

Effect of Slave's Manumission and Death on Aedilician Actions

Passage 3063 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Labeo explains that after the manumission of a purchased slave, the redhibitory and price-reduction actions (as well as actions on representations) are lost, whereas the death of the slave does not extinguish the aedilician actions.

[PAULUS libro undecimo ad Sabinum. ] §21.1.47.prSi hominem emptum manumisisti, et redhibitoriam et quanti minoris denegandam tibi Labeo ait, sicut duplae actio periret: ergo et quod aduersus dictum promissumue sit, actio peribit.
[PAULUS in the eleventh book on Sabinus.] If you have manumitted a purchased slave, Labeo says that both the redhibitory action and the action for price reduction should be denied to you, just as the action for double the price would be lost; therefore, the action for what has been stated or promised contrary to fact will also be lost.
§21.1.47.1Post mortem autem hominis aediliciae actiones manent,
After the death of the slave, however, the aedilician actions remain.

Notes

  1. §21.1.47.prdenegandam — A gerundive in the accusative feminine singular, forming a future passive infinitive (`denegandam esse` with `esse` understood) in the accusative-and-infinitive (AcI) construction governed by `ait`. It grammatically agrees with the feminine singular noun `actio` (understood from context), but semantically applies to both `redhibitoriam` and `quanti minoris`.
  2. §21.1.47.prquod aduersus dictum promissumue sit — A relative clause containing the subjunctive `sit`, qualifying the subject `actio`. It means "the action for what has been [done/stated] contrary to (or in violation of) the declaration or promise (*dictum promissumve*)."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.47.pr-21.1.47.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.47.pr-21.1.47.1

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