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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.2.48.pr

Acquisition of Land and Slaves through One Slave

Passage 6746 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The author discusses how, in the donation of tracts of land together with slaves, if even one of the donated slaves reaches the donee and is immediately sent back to the land, possession of the land and of all the other slaves is established through that slave.

[IDEM libro decimo responsorum. ] §41.2.48.prPraedia cum seruis donauit eorumque se tradidisse possessionem litteris declarauit.
[THE SAME, in the tenth book of Opinions.] A person donated tracts of land together with slaves, and declared in writing that he had delivered possession of them.
si uel unus ex seruis, qui simul cum praediis donatus est, ad eum, qui donum accepit, peruenit, mox in praedia remissus est, per seruum praediorum possessionem quaesitam ceterorumque seruorum constabit.
If even one of the slaves, who was donated together with the land, reached the person who received the donation, and was immediately sent back to the land, it will be established that possession of the land and of the other slaves was acquired through that slave.

Notes

  1. §41.2.48.preorumque — A genitive referring back to the entire preceding noun phrase "praedia cum seruis" (tracts of land with slaves).
  2. §41.2.48.prpossessionem quaesitam ... constabit — The future verb "constabit" (it will be established) takes an accusative with infinitive clause "possessionem quaesitam [esse]" (with "esse" omitted) as its subject. The noun "possessionem" is modified by both genitives "praediorum" and "ceterorumque seruorum", and the participle "quaesitam" (feminine accusative singular) agrees with "possessionem".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.2.48.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.2.48.pr

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