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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.14.4.pr

Absolute Five-Year Bar on Freeborn Status Claims

Passage 6618 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that the imperial speech, which prohibits claiming freeborn status after five years from manumission before consuls or governors, allows no exception for any cause or person.

[PAPINIANUS libro uicensimo secundo quaestionum. ] §40.14.4.prOratio, quae prohibet apud consules aut praesides prouinciarum post quinquennium a die manumissionis in ingenuitatem proclamare, nullam causam aut personam excipit.
[PAPINIANUS, in the Twenty-Second Book of Questions.] The imperial speech, which prohibits claiming freeborn status before the consuls or the governors of provinces after five years from the day of manumission, makes no exception for any cause or person.

Notes

  1. §40.14.4.prOratio — Refers to an imperial address or speech delivered to the senate, which carried the force of law as a form of imperial constitution.
  2. §40.14.4.prin ingenuitatem proclamare — An infinitive phrase acting as the complement of `prohibet`. In a legal context, it means to make a public claim or bring a lawsuit asserting one's status as freeborn (*ingenuitas*).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.14.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.14.4.pr

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