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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.99.pr

Concurrency of Legacy to Master and Slave's Option

Passage 4695 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If a slave is bequeathed to a master and an option is given to the master's slave, it is argued that half of the bequeathed slave belongs to the master, considering the possibility of the slave's future manumission and choice.

[IDEM libro septuagesimo digestorum. ] §30.1.99.prSi domino Stichus legatus esset et seruo eius optio data, partem dimidiam Stichi dico ad dominum pertinere, quod possit seruus manumissus eundem Stichum optare.
[THE SAME, from the seventieth book of the Digests.] If Stichus had been bequeathed to a master and an option had been given to his slave, I say that a half part of Stichus belongs to the master, because the slave, having been manumitted, can choose the same Stichus.

Notes

  1. §30.1.99.proptio data — The auxiliary verb `esset` is omitted. It is parallel to the preceding `legatus esset` and forms part of the pluperfect subjunctive passive conditional clause, setting up a hypothetical scenario.
  2. §30.1.99.prquod possit — The present subjunctive in the causal clause (`quod` clause). The subjunctive is used because it presents a potential future possibility ('could choose') within a hypothetical legal scenario as the ground for the opinion, rather than an objective fact.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.99.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.99.pr

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