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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.3.3.pr

Peculium of a Manumitted Municipal Slave and Discharge of Debt

Passage 6348 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section addresses the retention of the peculium by a municipal slave who has been lawfully manumitted, and the subsequent discharge of a debtor by paying him.

[PAPINIANUS libro quarto decimo responsorum. ] §40.3.3.prSeruus ciuitatis iure manumissus non ademptum peculium retinet ideoque debitor ei soluendo liberatur.
[PAPINIANUS, in the fourteenth book of Opinions.] A slave of a municipality, having been lawfully manumitted, retains his peculium which has not been taken away, and therefore a debtor is released by paying him.

Notes

  1. §40.3.3.prSeruus ciuitatis — Meaning "a slave of a municipality". Here, ciuitas refers not to the Roman state, but to a local municipal community.
  2. §40.3.3.prei soluendo — soluendo is the ablative of the gerund of soluere (to pay), expressing means ("by paying"). ei is the dative object governed by this gerund, referring to the freed slave.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.3.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.3.3.pr

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