[PAULUS libro tertio de adulteriis. ] §40.9.13.prQuod si intra diem sexagesimum manumiserint, erit seruus statuliber.
[PAULUS, from the third book on Adultery.] But if they manumit them within sixty days, the slave will be a statuliber.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.9.13.pr
Conditional Freedom from Manumission during Prohibited Days
Summary
Paulus states that if slaves are manumitted within the sixty-day prohibition period, they will hold the status of a conditionally free slave (statuliber).
Notes
- §40.9.13.prstatuliber — "statuliber" is a technical term in Roman law denoting a slave who is conditionally manumitted, whose freedom is suspended until a certain condition (here, the expiration of the sixty-day prohibition period) is fulfilled.
- §40.9.13.prmanumiserint — Third-person plural future perfect of manumitto (to manumit). It is used in the conditional clause to denote an action completed prior to the state expressed by the future tense verb erit in the main clause. The subject refers contextually to the parents or individuals prohibited from manumitting in the preceding sections.
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.9.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.9.13.pr
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