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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.119.pr

Legal Effect of Releasing a Slave from Rendering Accounts

Passage 4717 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the legal effect of a slave being exempted from rendering accounts by a testator, clarifying that it only waives a strict audit rather than permitting misappropriation, and does not imply a bequest of the peculium upon manumission.

[MARCIANUS libro primo regularum. ] §30.1.119.prSi seruus uetitus est a testatore rationes reddere, non hoc consequitur, ut ne quod apud eum sit reddat et lucri faciat, sed ne scrupulosa inquisitio fiat, hoc est ut neglegentiae ratio non habeatur, sed tantum fraudium.
[MARCIANUS, Rules, Book I] If a slave has been forbidden by the testator to render accounts, this does not have the result that he does not restore what is in his possession and makes a profit of it, but that a meticulous investigation is not made, that is, that no account is taken of negligence, but only of fraud.
ideo et manumisso non uidetur peculium legari per hoc, quod uetitus est rationes reddere.
Therefore, even to a manumitted slave, the peculium is not deemed to be bequeathed by the fact that he was forbidden to render accounts.

Notes

  1. §30.1.119.prnon hoc consequitur, ut ne — The clauses ut ne ... reddat and sed ne ... fiat function as the subject of, or as appositives to hoc with, the verb consequitur (it follows, results). Thus, the structure means 'this does not result in ... but rather in ...'.
  2. §30.1.119.prper hoc, quod uetitus est — The specific content of the demonstrative pronoun hoc is explained by the appositive quod clause (introducing the fact that). It means 'by this very fact, namely that he was forbidden'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.119.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.119.pr

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