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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.9.22.pr

Prohibition of Manumission by the Curator of an Insane Person

Passage 6544 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States that the curator of an insane person does not have the authority to manumit the slave owned by the insane person.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo quinto ad Quintum Mucium. ] §40.9.22.prCurator furiosi seruum eius manumittere non potest.
[POMPONIUS, from the twenty-fifth book on Quintus Mucius.] The curator of an insane person cannot manumit his slave.

Notes

  1. §40.9.22.preius — The genitive singular of the third-person demonstrative pronoun is, referring to the immediately preceding furiosi (the insane person). If it referred to the subject of the sentence, curator (the curator), the reflexive possessive adjective suum would be used; thus it clearly denotes 'the slave of the insane person'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §40.9.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:40.9.22.pr

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