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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.2.3.pr

Validity of a Legacy of the Services of a Free Person

Passage 4955 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that the services of a free person can be bequeathed, just as they can be leased or made the subject of a stipulation.

[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §33.2.3.prHominis quoque liberi operae legari possunt, sicut locari et in stipulationem deduci.
[PAULUS, On Sabinus, book III.] The services of a free person also can be bequeathed, just as they can be leased and made the subject of a stipulation.

Notes

  1. §33.2.3.prHominis... liberi — The noun hominis and the adjective liberi are in the genitive case, modifying operae (services). While the preceding section dealt with the services of a slave, this passage indicates that the services of a "free person" can likewise be the object of legal transactions.
  2. §33.2.3.prin stipulationem deduci — A legal idiom combining the preposition in with the accusative stipulationem and the passive infinitive deduci (to be brought into), meaning "to be made the subject of a stipulation". Following the conjunction sicut, it is governed by the main verb possunt (possunt locari et deduci).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.2.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.2.3.pr

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