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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.34.pr

Manumissions and the Falcidian Law for Own and Other Slaves

Passage 5479 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the Lex Falcidia does not apply to the manumission of the testator's own slave, but it does apply when money or other property is bequeathed on trust to manumit another's slave or the legatee's own slave.

[MARCELLUS libro quadragesimo secundo digestorum IULIANI notat. ] §35.2.34.prIn testatoris seruo non erit Falcidiae locus: si uero pecuniam aliudue quid legauerit fideique legatarii commiserit, ut alienum seruum uel legatarii manumitteret, locus erit.
[MARCELLUS notes in the forty-second book of JULIAN'S Digest.] In the case of a slave of the testator, there will be no room for the Lex Falcidia; but if he has bequeathed money or something else, and has entrusted to the good faith of the legatee that he manumit a slave belonging to another or to the legatee himself, there will be room for it.

Notes

  1. §35.2.34.prfideique legatarii commiserit, ut — The verb commiserit (subject: the testator) takes the dative fidei (modified by the genitive legatarii) and an ut-clause of indirect command with the imperfect subjunctive manumitteret (subject: the legatee). This is a standard formula for creating a trust (fideicommissum).
  2. §35.2.34.pruel legatarii — The genitive noun legatarii modifies the noun seruum understood from the preceding phrase alienum seruum ("[the slave] of the legatee"), standing in parallel with the possessive adjective alienum ("another's").
  3. §35.2.34.prlocus erit — The noun locus is supplied with the genitive Falcidiae from the preceding clause In testatoris seruo non erit Falcidiae locus, meaning "there will be room [for the Lex Falcidia]".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.34.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.34.pr

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