Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.9.1.pr

Capacity of a Person Born Deaf to Manumit Slaves

Passage 6523 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian quotes Celsus, who states that, out of practical considerations, a person born deaf has the legal capacity to manumit a slave.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §40.9.1.prCelsus libro duodecimo digestorum utilitatis gratia motus surdum ita natum manumittere posse ait.

[ULPIANUS, from the first book on Sabinus.] Celsus, in the twelfth book of his Digests, moved by considerations of utility, says that a person born deaf can manumit.

Notes

§40.9.1.prsurdum ita natum ... posse — The accusative noun phrase `surdum ita natum` (a person born deaf) functions as the subject accusative of the infinitive `posse` in the accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction. `manumittere` (to manumit) is a complementary infinitive depending on `posse`, while its direct object (the slave to be manumitted) is contextually omitted.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.9.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.9.1.pr

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