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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.2.9.pr-40.2.9.1

Rescue of a Master and Irrevocability of Approved Causes

Passage 6329 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the just cause of manumission when a slave saves his master, and the irrevocability of an approved cause for manumission.

[MARCIANUS libro tertio decimo institutionum. ] §40.2.9.prIusta causa manumissionis est, si periculo uitae infamiacue dominum seruus liberauerit.
[MARCIANUS, in the thirteenth book of the Institutes.] It is a just cause for manumission if a slave has freed his master from the danger of life or of infamy.
§40.2.9.1Sciendum est, qualiscumque causa probata sit et recepta, libertatem tribuere oportere: nam diuus Pius rescripsit causas probatas reuocari non oportere, dum ne alienum seruum possit quis manumittere: nam causae probationi contradicendum, non etiam causa iam probata retractanda est.
It must be known that, whatever cause has been approved and accepted, freedom ought to be granted; for the Divine Pius wrote in a rescript that approved causes ought not to be revoked, provided that one cannot manumit another's slave; for objection should be made to the approval of a cause, but a cause already approved is not to be reconsidered.

Notes

  1. §40.2.9.prpericulo uitae infamiacue — periculo is an ablative of separation/deprivation governed by the verb liberauerit ("to free from"), while uitae ("of life") and infamiacue (representing infamiae-que, "or of infamy") are genitives modifying periculo ("danger").
  2. §40.2.9.1dum ne — A conjunctional phrase introducing a restrictive condition ("provided that ... not", "as long as ... not"), taking the subjunctive possit.
  3. §40.2.9.1causae probationi contradicendum — An impersonal passive use of the gerundive with esse omitted. causae probationi is the dative case governed by the verb contradicere ("to speak against", "to object to").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.2.9.pr-40.2.9.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.2.9.pr-40.2.9.1

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