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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.12.34.pr

Rendering Accounts of Administration Before a Suit for Freedom

Passage 6599 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A decree of the Emperor Antoninus stating that anyone who managed business while in servitude must first render accounts of their administration before being allowed to bring a suit for freedom.

[ULPIANUS libro singulari pandectarum. ] §40.12.34.prImperator Antoninus constituit non alias ad libertatem proclamationem cuiquam permittendam, nisi prius administrationum rationes reddiderit, quas cum in seruitute esset gessisset.
[ULPIAN, in the single book of the Pandects.] The Emperor Antoninus decreed that a proclamation of freedom should not be permitted to anyone under any other circumstances, unless he has first rendered accounts of the administrations which he had conducted when he was in servitude.

Notes

  1. §40.12.34.prnon alias ... nisi — A correlative expression meaning "not in any other case... except when," expressing a strict condition.
  2. §40.12.34.prpermittendam — A gerundive (future passive participle) with the omission of esse in the accusative with infinitive construction dependent on constituit. It agrees in gender, number, and case with the subject proclamationem (accusative feminine singular).
  3. §40.12.34.prquas cum in seruitute esset gessisset — The relative pronoun quas (accusative feminine plural) refers back to administrationum. Embedded within this relative clause is a cum clause with the subjunctive imperfect (esset) expressing time or circumstance. The main verb of the relative clause, gessisset, is in the pluperfect subjunctive, representing an action prior to the past time of the main verb constituit.

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