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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.8.16.pr

Invalidity of Manumission Discharged by Later Creditors

Passage 7018 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section establishes an exception to the validity of manumissions, stating that they are invalid if it is proven that the prior creditors were discharged using the money of the subsequent creditors.

[PAULUS libro quinto responsorum PAPINIANI.] §42.8.16.prnisi priores pecunia posteriorum dimissi probentur.
[PAULUS in the fifth book of Opinions of PAPINIANUS.] unless the prior creditors are proved to have been discharged with the money of the subsequent ones.

Notes

  1. 42.8.16.prnisi — The conjunction nisi introduces an exception to the conclusion of the preceding section (42.8.15.pr), 'the manumissions are valid' (libertates ratae sunt).
  2. 42.8.16.prdimissi probentur — The verb probentur is used in a personal construction (nominativus cum infinitivo), where the subject is priores, and the perfect participle dimissi (acting as part of the perfect infinitive with esse omitted) agrees with it in the nominative plural.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.8.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.8.16.pr

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