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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.5.2.pr

Freedom by Codicil and Security on Disclaimed Estate

Passage 6411 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If a person dies intestate after granting freedom via a codicil and the inheritance is not accepted, the constitution of the Divine Marcus applies, granting freedom and property to the slave on the condition that they provide security to the creditors.

[IDEM libro sexagensimo ad edictum. ] §40.5.2.prSi quis intestatus decedens codicillis dedit libertates neque adita sit ab intestato hereditas, fauor constitutionis diui Marci debet locum habere et hoc casu, quae iubet libertatem competere seruo et bona ei addici, si idonee creditoribus cauerit de solido, quod cuique debetur, soluendo.
[THE SAME, Book 60 on the Edict.] If someone, dying intestate, has granted freedoms by a codicil, and the inheritance is not accepted under the intestacy, the favor of the constitution of the Divine Marcus must take place in this case as well, which orders that freedom belong to the slave and that the property be assigned to him, if he has given sufficient security to the creditors for the payment of the full amount owed to each.

Notes

  1. §40.5.2.prquae iubet — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quae (nominative feminine singular) is the genitive noun constitutionis (feminine singular). Although separated by the main predicate debet locum habere, it directly modifies it.
  2. §40.5.2.prde solido ... soluendo — A gerundive construction in the ablative case introduced by the preposition de. The noun solidum (the whole sum) appears in the ablative solido as the object, with the gerundive soluendo agreeing with it. The solidum is further modified by the relative clause quod cuique debetur.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.5.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.5.2.pr

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