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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.6.11.pr

Relief for Free Persons Held in Servitude

Passage 774 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that legal relief is also granted to a free person who has been in a state of servitude, whether serving in good faith or being detained.

[CALLISTRATUS libro secundo edicti monitorii. ] §4.6.11.prEi quoque succurritur, qui in seruitute fuerit, siue bona fide seruiat homo liber, siue detentus sit.
[CALLISTRATUS libro secundo edicti monitorii.] Relief is also granted to one who has been in a state of servitude, whether he is a free person serving in good faith, or has been detained.

Notes

  1. §4.6.11.prsuccurritur — Impersonal passive of the verb succurrere which governs the dative case. Taking the dative pronoun Ei (the antecedent of the relative clause qui...) as its object, it means "relief is granted to...".
  2. §4.6.11.prbona fide seruiat homo liber — Refers to the Roman legal concept of "bona fide seruiens" (a free person serving in good faith), meaning a free individual who, due to an error of fact on their own or another's part, serves as a slave in good faith (believing themselves to be a slave).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.6.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.6.11.pr

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