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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.2.12.pr

Blood Ties as Just Cause for Manumission Under Twenty

Passage 6332 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that connection by blood (cognation) is considered a just cause for manumission by a person under twenty years of age.

[IDEM libro secundo ad legem Aeliam Sentiam. ] §40.2.12.pruel si sanguine eum contingit (habetur enim ratio cognationis):
[THE SAME, in the second book On the Aelian-Sentian Law.] or if he is related to him by blood (for account is taken of cognation):

Notes

  1. §40.2.12.prcontingit — The verb `contingere` (to touch, reach) is used here with the accusative `eum` in the sense of "to be related to by blood" (accompanied by the ablative `sanguine`). Contextually, the subject is the slave to be manumitted, and the accusative `eum` refers to the manumitter under twenty years of age.
  2. §40.2.12.prhabetur enim ratio cognationis — A passive construction of the idiom `rationem habere` (to have regard for, take into account). The genitive `cognationis` is an objective genitive dependent on `ratio`, meaning "regard for cognation."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.2.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.2.12.pr

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