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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.13.5.pr

Enslavement of a Free Man Bought Jointly in Good and Bad Faith

Passage 6614 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that when two buyers, one in bad faith and one in good faith, purchase a free man older than twenty, the free man is made a slave only for the benefit of the buyer in good faith.

[PAULUS libro singulari ad senatus consultum Claudianum. ] §40.13.5.prSi duo liberum hominem maiorem annis uiginti emerimus, unus sciens eius condicionem, alter ignorans, non propter eum qui scit ad libertatem ei proclamare permittitur, sed propter eum qui ignorat seruus efficietur, sed non etiam eius qui scit, sed tantum alterius.
[PAULUS, in the Single Book on the Senatus Consultum Claudianum.] If we, being two, have bought a free man older than twenty years, one of us knowing his status, the other being ignorant of it, he is not permitted to claim his freedom on account of the one who knows, but on account of the one who is ignorant he will be made a slave; however, he will not become the slave of the one who knows as well, but only of the other.

Notes

  1. §40.13.5.premerimus — The verb `emerimus` is in the first-person plural perfect (or future perfect), with "we" as the subject. The following nominative phrases `unus sciens... alter ignorans` function as a partitive apposition to this implied subject.
  2. §40.13.5.preius qui scit — The genitives `eius` and `alterius` are possessive genitives modifying the noun `seruus`, which is omitted from the preceding clause `seruus efficietur`, meaning "to become the slave of...".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.13.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.13.5.pr

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