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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.4.37.pr

Manumission by Name in a Codicil via Main Will

Passage 6385 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a slave whose name is contained in a main will is deemed to be manumitted by name when freed in a codicil.

[IDEM libro nono ad Plautium. ] §40.4.37.prNominatim codicillis manumissus uidetur seruus, cuius nomen testamento continetur.
[THE SAME in the ninth book on Plautius.] A slave whose name is contained in a will is deemed to be manumitted by name in a codicil.

Notes

  1. §40.4.37.prnominatim — Adverb. It indicates a legal construction where, even if the slave's specific name is not written directly in the codicil, they are deemed to be manumitted 'by name' as long as their name is already contained in the main will (testamento).
  2. §40.4.37.prmanumissus uidetur — The copulative verb uidetur (third-person singular present indicative of uideri, 'to be deemed') takes the perfect passive participle manumissus (with the infinitive esse omitted) in a nominative with infinitive construction.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.4.37.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.4.37.pr

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