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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.5.39.pr-42.5.39.1

Support for Minors and Prohibition on Selling Captives' Goods

Passage 6988 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the obligation to provide support for a minor when creditors are placed in possession of their property, and the prohibition on selling the assets of someone captured by enemies.

[IDEM libro quinto sententiarum. ] §42.5.39.prPupillus si non defendatur, in possessione creditoribus constitutis minoribus, ex his usque ad pubertatem alimenta praestanda sunt.
[THE SAME in his fifth book of Opinions.] If a pupil is not defended, when the creditors have been placed in possession, support must be provided from these [assets] to the minors until they reach puberty.
§42.5.39.1Eius, qui ab hostibus captus est, bona uenire non possunt, quamdiu reuertatur.
The property of him who has been captured by enemies cannot be sold, so long as he may return.

Notes

  1. §42.5.39.prcreditoribus constitutis — Ablative absolute consisting of the noun creditoribus and the participle constitutis. Together with in possessione, it means "when the creditors have been placed in possession [of the property]."
  2. §42.5.39.1uenire — Present infinitive of the verb uēneo ("to be sold", "to be put up for sale"). Although spelled the same as uenīre ("to come" from uěnio), it has a long 'e' (uē-) and functions semantically as the passive voice of uendere ("to sell").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.5.39.pr-42.5.39.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.5.39.pr-42.5.39.1

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