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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.4.10.pr-38.4.10.1

Effects of Conditional or Term-Based Assignment of a Freedman

Passage 5998 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the ownership of rights and the effects on co-heirs while a condition or a specified term is pending after a freedman is assigned conditionally or temporarily.

[TERENTIUS CLEMENS libro duodecimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §38.4.10.prSub condicione uel in diem liberto adsignato interim pendente die uel condicione omnia perinde obseruabuntur, ac si adsignatus non esset: itaque mortuo eo interim ad omnes liberos hereditas et bonorum possessio pertinebit.
[TERENTIUS CLEMENS in the twelfth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] When a freedman is assigned under a condition or to a specified day, all things shall be observed in the same manner, while the day or the condition is pending in the meantime, as if he had not been assigned; therefore, if he dies in the meantime, the inheritance and the possession of goods will belong to all the children.
§38.4.10.1Si uni pure, alii sub condicione libertus adsignatus sit, eum, cui pure adsignatus sit, pendente condicione solum patroni ius habere dicendum est.
If a freedman has been assigned to one child unconditionally and to another conditionally, it must be said that he to whom the freedman was assigned unconditionally alone has the right of a patron while the condition is pending.

Notes

  1. §38.4.10.prliberto adsignato — Ablative absolute. It carries a conditional force, meaning "when/if a freedman is assigned." The following phrase "pendente die uel condicione" is another ablative absolute nested within the clause.
  2. §38.4.10.prmortuo eo — Ablative absolute, where the pronoun "eo" (him) refers to the previously mentioned "liberto" (freedman), meaning "if he (the freedman) dies."
  3. §38.4.10.1eum... habere dicendum est — Impersonal passive periphrastic construction "dicendum est" (it must be said) followed by an accusative and infinitive clause, with "eum" as the subject accusative and "habere" as the infinitive. "Eum" is the antecedent of the relative clause "cui pure adsignatus sit."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.4.10.pr-38.4.10.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.4.10.pr-38.4.10.1

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