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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.8.8.pr

Freedom When a Gift with Condition of Post-Mortem Release Fails

Passage 6521 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

An opinion of Papinian stating that when a gift of slaves to a daughter with the condition of post-mortem manumission is unfulfilled, the slaves gain freedom with the mother's consent if she is alive, or unconditionally if she died before the daughter.

[PAPINIANUS libro nono responsorum. ] §40.8.8.prMancipia mater filiae donauerat, ut filia curaret ea post mortem suam esse libera: cum donationis legi non esset obtemperatum, ex sententia constitutionis diui Marci libertates optingere matre consentiente respondi: quod si ante filiam mater uita decessit, omnimodo.
[PAPINIANUS, from the ninth book of Opinions.] A mother had donated slaves to her daughter on the condition that the daughter should take care that they be free after her own death. When the condition of the donation was not complied with, I replied that, in accordance with the intent of the constitution of the Divine Marcus, the freedoms would be realized if the mother consented; but if the mother departed this life before the daughter, then in any event.

Notes

  1. §40.8.8.prsuam — The reflexive possessive adjective suam refers to filia, the subject of the ut clause ('after her own [the daughter's] death'), rather than the subject of the main clause mater.
  2. §40.8.8.promnimodo — An adverb meaning 'in any event' or 'unconditionally.' The missing apodosis (e.g., libertates optingere) is implied, indicating that the slaves obtain freedom unconditionally without needing the mother's consent.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.8.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.8.8.pr

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