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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.12.35.pr

Ownership of Unfreed Slaves Appointed as Temple Guards

Passage 6600 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A case confirming that slaves designated to guard a temple that Titia wanted to build, but who were not freed, belonged to the heir.

[PAPINIANUS libro nono responsorum. ] §40.12.35.prSeruos ad templi custodiam, quod aedificari Titia uoluit, destinatos neque manumissos heredis esse constitit.
[PAPINIAN, in the ninth book of Opinions.] It was established that slaves who had been assigned to the custody of the temple, which Titia wished to be built, and had not been manumitted, belonged to the heir.

Notes

  1. §40.12.35.prconstitit — An impersonal verb taking the accusative with infinitive clause (seruos ... heredis esse) as its subject, meaning 'it was established that...'.
  2. §40.12.35.prheredis esse — heredis is a genitive of possession, which together with esse means 'to belong to the heir.'
  3. §40.12.35.prquod aedificari Titia uoluit — quod is a relative pronoun in the neuter accusative singular, referring back to templi (neuter singular genitive). aedificari is the present passive infinitive of aedifico, functioning as the complement of uoluit. quod is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive, meaning 'which Titia wished to be built.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.12.35.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.12.35.pr

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