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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.29.1.pr-43.29.1.1

Interdict for the Production of a Wrongfully Detained Free Person

Passage 7176 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The praetor's interdict ordering the production of a free person held in bad faith is presented, and its purpose is explained as protecting personal liberty from wrongful detention.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo primo ad edictum. ] §43.29.1.prAit praetor: 'Quem liberum dolo malo retines, exhibeas'. §43.29.1.1Hoc interdictum proponitur tuendae libertatis causa, uidelicet ne homines liberi retineantur a quoquam:
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, book seventy-one.] The praetor says: "Produce the free person whom you are holding in bad faith." This interdict is proposed for the sake of protecting liberty, namely, so that free men may not be detained by anyone:

Notes

  1. §43.29.1.prQuem liberum — A construction where the relative pronoun quem attracts its antecedent, the substantivized adjective liberum, into the relative clause (attraction of the antecedent). It is equivalent in sense to eum liberum, quem... ('that free person whom...').
  2. §43.29.1.prexhibeas — Second-person singular present subjunctive. In the formulaic language of a praetor's interdict, it functions as a jussive or hortatory subjunctive to express a command.
  3. §43.29.1.1tuendae libertatis — A gerundive construction where the gerundive tuendae agrees with the feminine singular genitive noun libertatis. Together with the following causa, it expresses purpose.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.29.1.pr-43.29.1.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.29.1.pr-43.29.1.1

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