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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.12.40.pr

Bar on Freedom Claims by Those Sold to Share the Price

Passage 6605 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is ruled that a person over twenty who allows himself to be sold under an agreement to share the price cannot claim his freedom even after manumission.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro quinto iuris epitomarum. ] §40.12.40.prCum pacto partitionis pretii maior uiginti annis uenalem se praebuit, nec post manumissionem ad libertatem proclamare potest.
[HERMOGENIANUS, in the fifth book of Epitomes of Law.] When a person over twenty years of age, under an agreement to share the price, has offered himself for sale, he cannot, even after manumission, claim his freedom.

Notes

  1. §40.12.40.prmaior uiginti annis — The ablative annis is an ablative of comparison with the comparative adjective maior (older), meaning over twenty years of age.
  2. §40.12.40.prad libertatem proclamare — A technical legal term meaning to bring a formal legal action or assert a claim to be recognized as a free person.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.12.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.12.40.pr

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