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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.39.pr

Deduction of Slaves' Values as Debts under the Lex Falcidia

Passage 5484 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section defines the scope of values of slaves (those set free, executed, or manumitted by the praetor for disclosing a crime) that are deducted as debt in calculating the net estate under the Lex Falcidia.

[PAULUS libro tertio sententiarum. ] §35.2.39.prAeris alieni loco deducuntur non solum pretia eorum, quibus libertas data est, et eorum, qui supplicio sunt adfecti, sed et eius, quem praetor propter indicium proditae mortis uel detectae eorum coniurationis libertate donauit.
[PAULUS in the third book of his Opinions.] Under the head of debt there are deducted not only the values of those to whom freedom has been given, and of those who have been executed, but also the value of him whom the praetor has gifted with freedom on account of information revealing a death or exposing their conspiracy.

Notes

  1. §35.2.39.praeris alieni loco — aeris alieni (literally 'other people's money') means 'debt'. Used with loco ('in the place of', 'under the category of'), it indicates the items to be deducted as debts from the total estate when calculating its net value under the Lex Falcidia.
  2. §35.2.39.prproditae mortis uel detectae eorum coniurationis — This features the noun-participle construction (similar to *ab urbe condita*), where the perfect passive participles (proditae, detectae) modifying the nouns (mortis, coniurationis) convey a gerundive meaning. Rather than 'revealed death' or 'exposed conspiracy', it signifies the actions of 'revealing the death' or 'exposing the conspiracy', serving as the genitive complements to indicium.
  3. §35.2.39.preius, quem ... libertate donauit — The genitive pronoun eius is coordinated with the preceding plural genitives eorum and implicitly depends on the omitted noun pretium (value). The verb donare takes the construction of gifting someone (accusative quem) with something (ablative libertate).

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