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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.4.11.pr-40.4.11.2

Duty of Fideicommissary Freedom and Joint Conditions

Passage 6359 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius discusses the obligation to manumit a bequeathed slave under a trust, the individual fulfillment of a joint financial condition for freedom, and the immediate liberation of a slave when at least one of multiple heirs accepts the inheritance.

[POMPONIUS libro septimo ad Sabinum. ] §40.4.11.prSi legato seruo fideicommissa libertas relicta est, uel heres uel legatarius eum cogitur manumittere.
[POMPONIUS in the seventh book on Sabinus.] If a trust-bequeathed freedom has been left to a bequeathed slave, either the heir or the legatee is compelled to manumit him.
§40.4.11.1'Si Stichus et Pamphilus decem dederint, liberi sunto': potest alter quinque dando liber esse, quamuis alter non dederit.
'If Stichus and Pamphilus give ten, let them be free': one can be free by giving five, although the other has not given.
§40.4.11.2Cum testamento seruus liber esse iussus est, uel uno ex pluribus heredibus institutis adeunte hereditatem statim liber est.
When a slave has been ordered to be free by a will, he is immediately free even if only one of several instituted heirs enters upon the inheritance.

Notes

  1. §40.4.11.prlegato seruo — The perfect passive participle 'legato' (from legare, 'to bequeath') agrees with the noun 'seruo' in the dative, serving as the indirect object or dative of advantage for 'relicta est'. Although grammatically 'legato' could be interpreted as an ablative absolute ('when the slave is bequeathed'), treating it as a dative ('to the bequeathed slave') is more natural in this context to maintain agreement with 'seruo'.
  2. §40.4.11.2uel uno ex pluribus heredibus institutis adeunte hereditatem — The ablative absolute 'uno... adeunte' (using the present participle 'adeunte') is modified by 'uel', which functions here as an emphasizing adverb meaning 'even' or 'even if only'. 'heredibus institutis' (instituted heirs) consists of 'heredibus' as the object of the preposition 'ex' and the agreeing perfect passive participle 'institutis'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.4.11.pr-40.4.11.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.4.11.pr-40.4.11.2

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