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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.14.5.pr-37.14.5.1

Re-enslavement for Treachery and Loss of Rights from Neglect

Passage 5855 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the deified Claudius' ruling that a freedman who set informers against his patron be re-enslaved, and the Emperor's rescript depriving a patron of his rights if he fails to support his freedman.

[IDEM libro tertio decimo institutionum. ] §37.14.5.prDiuus Claudius libertum, qui probatus fuit patrono delatores summisisse, qui de statu eius facerent ei quaestionem, seruum patroni esse iussit eum libertum.
[THE SAME, in the thirteenth book of Institutes.] The deified Claudius ordered that a freedman who was proved to have set informers against his patron, to raise an inquiry concerning his status, should become the slave of his patron.
§37.14.5.1Imperatoris nostri rescripto cauetur, ut, si patronus libertum suum non aluerit, ius patroni perdat.
By a rescript of our Emperor it is provided that, if a patron does not support his freedman, he loses his rights as a patron.

Notes

  1. §37.14.5.prlibertum ... eum libertum — The accusative libertum placed at the beginning of the sentence is redundantly repeated near the end as eum libertum to serve as the subject of the accusative-with-infinitive construction (AcI) governed by the main verb iussit.
  2. §37.14.5.prprobatus fuit ... summisisse — A personal passive construction (nominativus cum infinitivo), where the relative pronoun qui acts as the subject of the passive verb probatus fuit and takes the perfect infinitive summisisse.
  3. §37.14.5.prqui de statu eius facerent ei quaestionem — The relative clause introduced by qui takes the subjunctive facerent (imperfect), expressing the purpose or characteristic of the antecedent delatores. Both pronouns eius and ei refer to patrono.
  4. §37.14.5.1non aluerit — Future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) in a conditional clause (si clause), denoting an action (or failure to act) that must be completed before the loss of rights in the main clause takes effect.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.14.5.pr-37.14.5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.14.5.pr-37.14.5.1

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