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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.7.5.pr-40.7.5.1

Rendering Accounts and Cash Payment for Freedom

Passage 6476 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It discusses why a statuliber ordered to render accounts should be granted freedom if he pays the clear balance and offers security for the rest, and states that one ordered to pay money must pay in cash rather than providing a surety.

[POMPONIUS libro octauo ad Sabinum. ] §40.7.5.prStatuliber rationem reddere iussus reliquum quod apparet soluit, de eo, quod obscurius est, satisdare paratus est. Neratius et Aristo recte putant liberum fore, ne multi ad libertatem peruenire non possint incerta causa rationis et genere negotii huiusmodi.
[POMPONIUS libro octauo ad Sabinum.] When a statuliber, ordered to render accounts, has paid the balance that appears and is ready to give security for that which is less clear, Neratius and Aristo rightly think that he will be free, lest many might not be able to arrive at freedom due to the uncertain state of the accounts and the nature of this kind of business.
§40.7.5.1Statuliber, qui non rationes reddere, sed pecuniam iussus est dare, numerare debet, non fideiussorem dare.
A statuliber who is ordered not to render accounts but to give money, must count out the money, not provide a surety.

Notes

  1. §40.7.5.prliberum fore — An accusative-and-infinitive construction in indirect discourse, where the subject accusative `eum` (referring to the statuliber) is omitted. `fore` is the alternative form of `futurum esse` (will be).
  2. §40.7.5.prne multi ad libertatem peruenire non possint — The negative conjunction `ne` combined with the negative `non` in the clause expresses a negative purpose with a double negation ("lest many might not be able to arrive at freedom," meaning "so that as many as possible can attain freedom").
  3. §40.7.5.1numerare — Means "to count out money" (i.e., to pay in cash), in contrast with providing a surety (`fideiussorem dare`). Both `numerare` and `dare` function as complementary infinitives dependent on `debet`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.7.5.pr-40.7.5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.7.5.pr-40.7.5.1

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