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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.14.20.pr

Patron's Choice of Claims on Freedman's Death

Passage 5870 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the patron's right to choose between demanding the duties imposed for freedom or claiming possession of a part of the estate, regardless of whether the freedman dies testate or intestate.

[IDEM libro tertio sententiarum. ] §37.14.20.prSicut testamento facto decedente liberto potestas datur patrono uel libertatis causa imposita petere uel partis bonorum possessionem, ita et cum intestato decesserit, earum rerum electio ei manet.
[THE SAME, in the third book of Opinions.] Just as, when a freedman dies having made a will, the power is given to the patron to demand either what was imposed for the sake of freedom or the possession of a part of the estate, so also, when he dies intestate, the choice between these things remains to him.

Notes

  1. §37.14.20.prtestamento facto decedente liberto — Two ablative absolute constructions are combined. Within the circumstance of decedente liberto ("with the freedman dying"), the condition testamento facto ("with a will having been made") is embedded, together meaning "when a freedman dies having made a will."
  2. §37.14.20.prlibertatis causa imposita — imposita is the accusative neuter plural of the perfect passive participle of imponere ("to impose"), used substantively to mean "things or obligations imposed," serving as the object of the infinitive petere. libertatis causa is an adverbial phrase of cause or purpose ("for the sake of freedom") modifying imposita.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.14.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.14.20.pr

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