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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.7.26.pr-40.7.26.1

Freedom Conditioned on Accounting and Unmanaged Affairs

Passage 6497 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the scope of the heir's demands regarding a slave's accounts under testamentary conditions, and how a slave who managed no property still becomes free.

[IDEM libro nono regularum. ] §40.7.26.prLibertate seruo sub condicione rationis redditae testamento data heres non solum scriptam rationem exigit, ueruin etiam quae sine scriptura ab eo administrata est.
[THE SAME, book nine of the Rules.] When freedom is granted by testament to a slave under the condition of rendering accounts, the heir demands not only the written account, but also that which was managed by him without writing.
§40.7.26.1Seruus iussus reddita ratione ad libertatem peruenire, licet nullam administrauerit rationem, nihilo minus erit liber.
A slave ordered to attain freedom after rendering accounts will, even if he has managed no accounts, nevertheless become free.

Notes

  1. §40.7.26.prLibertate ... data — The feminine ablative noun libertate agrees with the perfect passive participle data, forming an ablative absolute to express a conditional or temporal circumstance ('When freedom is granted').
  2. §40.7.26.prrationis redditae — The gerundive redditae agrees with the feminine genitive noun rationis, representing the action of rendering accounts, which functions as the genitive complement to sub condicione ('under the condition of rendering accounts').
  3. §40.7.26.prquae sine scriptura ab eo administrata est — The relative pronoun quae (feminine singular nominative) refers back to scriptam rationem (feminine singular accusative). It establishes that the subject of the passive verb administrata est is the non-written administration of property.
  4. §40.7.26.1licet nullam administrauerit rationem — The concessive conjunction licet is used with the perfect subjunctive administrauerit to mean 'although he has managed no accounts.' The adjective nullam agrees in gender, number, and case with rationem (feminine singular accusative).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.7.26.pr-40.7.26.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.7.26.pr-40.7.26.1

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