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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.1.17.pr

Denial of Demands Unsuited to Freedman's Age or Health

Passage 5902 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is provided that a patron's demand for services is not to be granted if the requested services are unsuitable due to the freedman's age or bodily infirmity, or if they impair his established way of life.

[IDEM libro singulari de iure patronatus. ] §38.1.17.prnec audiendus est patronus, si poscit operas, quas uel aetas recusat uel infirmitas corporis non patiatur uel quibus institutum uel propositum uitae minuitur.
[THE SAME, in the single book on the Right of Patronage.] Nor is a patron to be heard if he demands services which either age refuses, or bodily infirmity does not allow, or by which his established way or purpose of life is impaired.

Notes

  1. §38.1.17.praudiendus est — The gerundive with 'est' expresses obligation or propriety ('ought to be heard'). In a legal context, it means that the patron's claim or petition should not be admitted or sustained in court.
  2. §38.1.17.prquas uel ... uel quibus — An alternation of cases in the relative pronoun referring to 'operas'. In the first two clauses (with 'recusat' and 'patiatur'), the relative pronoun is the direct object (accusative 'quas', understood in the second clause), whereas in the last clause (with 'minuitur') it shifts to the ablative of means 'quibus' ('by which').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.1.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.1.17.pr

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