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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.2.18.pr-40.2.18.2

Manumission Before Filial Magistrates and Colleagues

Passage 6338 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text discusses manumission before a filiusfamilias who is a magistrate, the prohibition of a praetor manumitting before his colleague, and a son's capacity to manumit before his father with the latter's consent.

[IDEM libro sexto decimo ad Plautium. ] §40.2.18.prApud filium familias magistratum manumitti potest, etiamsi ipse filius familias manumittere non potest.
[THE SAME, in the sixteenth book on Plautius.] Manumission can take place before a filiusfamilias who is a magistrate, even if the filiusfamilias himself cannot manumit.
§40.2.18.1Apud collegam suum praetor manumittere non potest.
A praetor cannot manumit before his colleague.
§40.2.18.2Filius quoque uoluntate patris apud patrem manumittere poterit.
A son will also be able to manumit before his father with the consent of the father.

Notes

  1. §40.2.18.prfilium familias magistratum — filium familias is in the accusative case, with the noun magistratum in apposition. It indicates that although he is a 'son under paternal power' in private law, his status as a public 'magistrate' qualifies him to have manumissions performed before him.
  2. §40.2.18.2uoluntate patris — uoluntate is the ablative singular of uoluntas (will, consent), expressing the condition or attendant circumstance ('with the consent of'). patris is the possessive genitive, indicating that the father's consent is required for the son to manumit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.2.18.pr-40.2.18.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.2.18.pr-40.2.18.2

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