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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.37.pr-35.2.37.1

Valuation of Statuliberi and Deduction of Slave Prices

Passage 5482 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It discusses the valuation of a slave whose freedom is conditional, and the deduction of the price of another person's slave from the inheritance when the heir is requested to manumit them.

[UALENS libro sexto de fideicommissis. ] §35.2.37.prEius serui aestimatio perinde ac statuliberi fieri debet.
[VALENS in the sixth book of his Treatise on Trusts.] The valuation of that slave ought to be made in the same manner as that of a conditionally free slave.
§35.2.37.1Sed et si heres seruum alienum rogatus est manumittere, placuit, ut etiam huius pretium ex aestimatione hereditatis deduci debeat.
But even if the heir has been requested to manumit someone else's slave, it has been held that the price of this slave too ought to be deducted from the valuation of the inheritance.

Notes

  1. §35.2.37.prstatuliberi — A genitive singular noun with the omission of the preceding noun `aestimatio`. The full structure is understood as `perinde ac [aestimatio] statuliberi` (just as the valuation of a conditionally free slave).
  2. §35.2.37.1placuit, ut — The impersonal verb `placuit` (it has been held/resolved) takes the `ut`-clause containing the subjunctive verb `debeat` as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.37.pr-35.2.37.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.37.pr-35.2.37.1

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