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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.4.21.pr

Correction of a Slave's Name in Manumission

Passage 6369 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It presents a decision that when a name is corrected using the expression 'or rather' in a testamentary manumission, only the corrected slave will be freed.

[IDEM libro quarto quaestionum. ] §40.4.21.pr'Stichus, immo Pamphilus liber esto'. Pamphilum liberum futurum respondit: quodammodo enim emendasse errorem suum testatorem.
[THE SAME in the fourth book of Questions.] 'Let Stichus, or rather Pamphilus, be free.' He answered that Pamphilus would be free; for the testator had, in a way, corrected his own error.
idemque iuris fore etiam, si ita scriptum fuerit: 'Stichus liber esto, immo Pamphilus liber esto'.
And the same rule of law would apply even if it had been written thus: 'Let Stichus be free, or rather let Pamphilus be free.'

Notes

  1. §40.4.21.pridemque iuris fore — idem iuris means 'the same of law' (the same legal rule/result), with iuris being a partitive genitive. fore is an alternative form of futurum esse and is part of the accusative with infinitive construction (indirect speech) depending on the main verb respondit.
  2. §40.4.21.premendasse — A syncopated form of the perfect infinitive emendavisse. It is part of an accusative with infinitive clause with testatorem (the testator) as its subject accusative, introduced by enim (for) to explain the reason for the answer (respondit) in indirect speech.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.4.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.4.21.pr

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