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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.5.8.pr

No Compulsion to Manumit upon Renunciation of Legacy

Passage 6418 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text states the opinion of Pomponius that a legatee who does not accept his legacy cannot be compelled to fulfill a trust-bequest to manumit a slave.

[POMPONIUS libro septimo ex Plautio. ] §40.5.8.prEum cui mille nummi legati fuissent, si rogatus fuisset uiginti seruum manumittere, non cogi fideicommissam libertatem praestare, si legatum non caperet, constat.
[POMPONIUS in the seventh book on Plautius.] It is well established that a person to whom one thousand sesterces had been bequeathed, if he had been requested to manumit a slave for twenty [sesterces], is not compelled to grant the trust-freedom if he does not receive the legacy.

Notes

  1. §40.5.8.prconstat — The impersonal verb constat takes an accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction as its subject, where eum is the subject accusative and non cogi is the infinitive. The relative clause cui...fuissent modifies eum, and the complementary infinitive praestare depends on cogi.
  2. §40.5.8.pruiginti — The numeral uiginti (twenty) is used substantively, with an ablative noun of price (such as nummis or sestertiis) understood, functioning as an ablative of price ('for twenty [coins]').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.5.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.5.8.pr

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