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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.2.24.pr

Manumission by a Ward and Exclusion of the Peculium

Passage 6344 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage explains the requirements for a ward who is no longer an infant to legally manumit a slave before the council, with the limitation that the peculium does not accompany the slave.

[PAULUS libro secundo ad Neratium. ] §40.2.24.prPupillus qui infans non est apud consilium recte manumittit.
[PAULUS, in the second book on Neratius.] A ward who is no longer an infant legally manumits before the council.
PAULUS: scilicet tutore auctore, ita tamen, ut peculium eum non sequatur.
PAULUS: needless to say, with the authorization of the tutor, provided, however, that the peculium does not accompany him.

Notes

  1. §40.2.24.prtutore auctore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of two nouns, meaning 'with the tutor as authorizer' or 'with the authorization of the tutor.'
  2. §40.2.24.prita tamen, ut — A correlative construction expressing a restrictive condition, meaning 'provided, however, that...' or 'only under the condition that...' The subordinate clause (ut... sequatur) is in the present subjunctive.
  3. §40.2.24.preum — The pronoun 'eum' (accusative singular masculine) refers contextually to the manumitted slave, who is the implied object of the main verb 'manumittit' (manumits).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.2.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.2.24.pr

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