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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.1.24.pr

Exemption of Fideicommissary Freedmen and Rights of Patrons

Passage 3965 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The author argues that a person who has received liberty through a fideicommissum does not lose the privilege of excuse from guardianship, explaining that such a manumissor does not acquire the normal rights of a patron.

[PAPINIANUS libro undecimo quaestionum. ] §27.1.24.prNequaquam credendum est ei priuilegium excusationis ablatum, cui fideicommissaria libertas soluta est: nam in toto fere iure manumissor eiusmodi nihil iuris ut patronus aduersus liberti personam consequitur, excepto quod in ius uocare patronum iniussu praetoris non debet.
[PAPINIANUS, from the eleventh book of Questions.] It must by no means be believed that the privilege of excuse has been taken away from him to whom a fideicommissary liberty has been paid; for in almost the whole of the law, a manumissor of this kind acquires no right as a patron against the person of the freedman, except that the freedman ought not to summon the patron to court without the order of the praetor.

Notes

  1. §27.1.24.prei ... ablatum — The dative ei is used with the passive participle ablatum [esse] (from aufero) as a dative of separation, meaning 'taken away from him.'
  2. §27.1.24.prnon debet — In the clause introduced by the impersonal phrase excepto quod, the subject of the verb debet is the 'freedman' (libertus), understood from the preceding genitive liberti. patronum is the accusative object of in ius uocare (to summon to court).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.1.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.1.24.pr

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