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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.8.20.pr

Irrelevance of Sequence in Ineffective Manumission

Passage 5109 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It points out that the sequence of an ineffectual manumission and a bequest makes no difference to the legal effect.

[MARCIANUS libro septimo institutionum. ] §33.8.20.prnihilque interest, ante legatus, deinde inutiliter manumissus sit an contra.
[Marcian, Institutes, Book 7.] And it makes no difference whether [the slave] was first bequeathed and then ineffectually manumitted, or the reverse.

Notes

  1. §33.8.20.prnihilque interest — The impersonal verb 'interest' takes the disjunctive indirect question clause (... sit an contra) as its subject, while 'nihil' functions as an adverbial accusative (or nominative) of degree.
  2. §33.8.20.prante legatus, deinde inutiliter manumissus sit — The auxiliary verb 'sit' is omitted after 'legatus' to form the perfect subjunctive passive. The contextual subject of both 'legatus' and 'manumissus' (masculine singular) is the slave belonging to the peculium mentioned in the preceding text.
  3. §33.8.20.pran contra — An elliptical expression for 'an ante inutiliter manumissus, deinde legatus sit', referring to the reverse order of the events described.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.8.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.8.20.pr

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