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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.15.10.pr

Exemption of Freed Sons from Services and Duty of Pietas

Passage 5884 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a father has no right to impose obligations on a son freed after being sold, and that children owe their parents affection (pietas) rather than services (operae).

[TRYPHONINUS libro septimo decimo disputationum. ] §37.15.10.prNullum ius libertatis causa impositorum habet in mancipato filio, quia nihil imponi liberis solet.
[TRYPHONINUS, from the seventeenth book of Disputations.] A father has no right over a son who has been sold into bondage and then freed regarding things imposed by reason of manumission, because nothing is customarily imposed on children.
nec quisquam dixit iureiurando obligari filium patri manumissori ut libertum patrono: nam pietatem liberi parentibus, non operas debent.
Nor has anyone ever said that a son is bound by an oath to his manumitting father in the same way as a freedman is to his patron; for children owe affection to their parents, not services.

Notes

  1. §37.15.10.prhabet — The subject is not explicitly stated, but contextually refers to the "father" (pater) who freed his son after mancipation.
  2. §37.15.10.primpositorum — Genitive of the neuter plural substantive imposita ("things imposed"), depending on the preceding noun ius ("right to things imposed").
  3. §37.15.10.prut libertum patrono — A comparative clause with an ellipsis, structured as ut libertum [obligari] patrono ("as a freedman [is bound] to a patron"). The accusative libertum corresponds to filium (subject of the infinitive clause), and the dative patrono corresponds to patri.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.15.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.15.10.pr

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