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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.9.19.pr

Invalidity of Manumission by One Declared a Slave

Passage 6541 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is ruled that no grant of freedom is valid if it was made by a person who was subsequently declared to be a slave.

[MODESTINUS libro primo regularum. ] §40.9.19.prNulla competit libertas data ab eo, qui postea seruus ipse pronuntiatus est.
[MODESTINUS, from the first book of Rules.] No freedom is valid which is given by him who was afterwards himself declared to be a slave.

Notes

  1. §40.9.19.prseruus ipse pronuntiatus est — The verb pronuntiare (to declare) in the active voice takes a double accusative, or an accusative with infinitive construction. In the passive pronuntiatus est, the predicate noun seruus appears in the nominative case (masculine singular), agreeing with the subject relative pronoun qui and the intensive pronoun ipse.

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