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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.5.56.pr

Institution of a Slave Entitled to Freedom Under a Trust

Passage 4235 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses a case of an insolvent testator who institutes a slave first and then a person to whom freedom is owed under a trust, explaining that the latter becomes the heir because the manumission is not deemed to defraud creditors.

[PAULUS libro primo ad legem Aeliam Sentiam. ] §28.5.56.prSi is qui soluendo non est primo locum Stichum, secundo eum cui ex fideicommissi causa libertatem debet liberum et heredem instituerit, Neratius secundo loco scriptum heredem fore ait, quia non uidetur creditorum fraudandorum causa manumissus.
[PAULUS, On the Lex Aelia Sentia, Book 1] If a person who is insolvent institutes, in the first place, Stichus, and in the second place, one to whom he owes freedom by virtue of a trust, as free and heir, Neratius says that the person written in the second place will be the heir, because he is not deemed to have been manumitted for the purpose of defrauding creditors.

Notes

  1. 28.5.56.prprimo locum — The manuscript reading `locum` (accusative) is commonly regarded as a scribal error for `loco` (ablative, 'in the first place'). Alternatively, it could be construed as 'Stichus as the first place (i.e. position),' but in parallel with the subsequent `secundo` (sc. `loco`), it is functionally understood as `primo loco`.
  2. 28.5.56.prsoluendo non est — The construction of `esse` with the dative gerund `soluendo` means 'not to be capable of paying,' i.e., 'to be insolvent' or 'unable to meet one's financial liabilities.'
  3. 28.5.56.prcreditorum fraudandorum causa — A gerundive construction where the gerundive `fraudandorum` agrees with the noun `creditorum`, combined with `causa` (ablative used as a postposition) to express purpose: 'for the purpose of defrauding creditors.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.5.56.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.5.56.pr

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