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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.1.2.pr

Validity of Manumission by Heir upon Legatee's Refusal

Passage 6296 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Concerning the rule that if an heir manumits a bequeathed slave while the legatee is deliberating, and the legatee subsequently rejects the legacy, the slave will become free.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad Sabinum. ] §40.1.2.prSi heres deliberante legatario seruum legatum manumiserit, mox legatarius repudiauerit, manumissum liberum fore placet.
[THE SAME, in the seventeenth book on Sabinus.] If, while the legatee is deliberating, the heir manumits a bequeathed slave, and subsequently the legatee rejects the legacy, it is held that the manumitted slave will be free.

Notes

  1. §40.1.2.prdeliberante legatario — An ablative absolute construction consisting of a noun and a present participle in the ablative. It expresses the temporal circumstance under which the heir manumitted the slave: "while the legatee is deliberating (whether to accept or reject the legacy)".
  2. §40.1.2.prmanumissum liberum fore — An accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the subject of the impersonal verb `placet`. `manumissum` is a perfect participle used substantively ("the manumitted slave") as the subject accusative, and `fore` is the contracted form of the future infinitive `futurum esse`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.1.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.1.2.pr

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