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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.5.12.pr

Freedom Granted as Reward to a Bequeathed Slave

Passage 4558 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It clarifies that if a slave bequeathed by a slain testator is granted freedom by the praetor as a reward, that freedom is not to be obstructed.

[PAULUS libro singulari ad senatus consultum Silanianum. ] §29.5.12.prSi seruus a testatore occiso legatus sit et praetor pro praemio statuerit liberum eum esse, dicendum est non impediri libertatem.
[PAULUS, in his single book on the Senatus Consultum Silanianum.] If a slave has been bequeathed by a testator who was killed, and the praetor has decreed as a reward that he should be free, it must be said that his freedom is not impeded.

Notes

  1. §29.5.12.pra testatore occiso — The perfect participle occiso modifies the ablative noun testatore, which is governed by the preposition a. Although it resembles an ablative absolute construction, here it forms a prepositional phrase expressing the agent ('by the testator') of the passive verb legatus sit.
  2. §29.5.12.prnon impediri libertatem — An accusative with infinitive construction depending on the impersonal passive periphrastic dicendum est ('it must be said'). libertatem (accusative) is the subject, and impediri (present passive infinitive) is the verb.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.5.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.5.12.pr

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