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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.1.2.pr-38.1.2.1

Praetorian Edict Limiting Demands for Freedmen's Services

Passage 5887 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The praetor introduces an edict to limit the demands for services imposed on freed persons due to their liberation, promising first to grant actions regarding services against freedmen and freedwomen.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §38.1.2.prHoc edictum praetor proponit coartandae persecutionis libertatis causa impositorum: animaduertit enim rem istam libertatis causa impositorum praestationem ultra excreuisse, ut premeret atque oncraret libertinas personas.
The praetor proposes this edict for the purpose of limiting the prosecution of things imposed for the sake of liberty; for he noticed that this practice of rendering things imposed for the sake of liberty had grown excessively, so as to oppress and burden freed persons.
§38.1.2.1Initio igitur praetor pollicetur se iudicium operarum daturum in libertos et libertas.
In the beginning, therefore, the praetor promises that he will grant an action for labor services against freedmen and freedwomen.

Notes

  1. §38.1.2.prcoartandae persecutionis — A genitive phrase featuring a gerundive, expressing purpose. Because libertatis causa immediately follows, the word causa is omitted here to avoid redundancy.
  2. §38.1.2.prrem istam ... praestationem ... ultra excreuisse — An accusative-with-infinitive (ACI) construction functioning as the object of animaduertit. The phrase rem istam is in apposition with praestationem, together serving as the subject of the infinitive excreuisse.
  3. §38.1.2.proncraret — A variant spelling in the manuscripts for oneraret (third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of onerare, 'to burden'). It is coordinated with premeret in the consecutive ut-clause.
  4. §38.1.2.1libertas — Not the nominative singular of the abstract noun libertas ('liberty'), but the accusative plural of the noun liberta ('freedwoman'). It is governed by the preposition in and paired with the masculine accusative plural libertos.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.1.2.pr-38.1.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.1.2.pr-38.1.2.1

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