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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.7.4.pr

Manumission by Codicil and Relevant Time of Solvency

Passage 4580 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section establishes that a person who is solvent at the time of making a codicil can validly grant freedom to a slave, even if they were insolvent when the will was made.

[IDEM libro sexagesimo tertio digestorum. ] §29.7.4.prEum, qui codicillorum tempore soluendo sit, recte libertatem dare placuit, quamuis testamenti facti tempore soluendo non fuerit.
[THE SAME AUTHOR, in his sixty-third book of Digests.] It has been held that a person who is solvent at the time of the codicil can rightly grant freedom, even though he was not solvent at the time the will was made.

Notes

  1. §29.7.4.prsoluendo — The dative of the gerundive of `soluere`, which when used with `esse` (*soluendo esse*) forms a legal idiom meaning "to be solvent" or "capable of paying.’
  2. §29.7.4.prplacuit — Used impersonally to mean "it has been held/decided," governing the accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction `eum ... dare` ("that he grants freedom") as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.7.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.7.4.pr

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