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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.7.14.pr

Obligations of Slaves from Delicts and Contracts

Passage 7299 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text explains the nature of obligations incurred by slaves from delicts and contracts (distinguishing between civil law and natural law), their continuation after manumission, and the effect of payment.

[IDEM libro septimo disputationum. ] §44.7.14.prSerui ex delictis quidem obligantur et, si manumittantur, obligati remanent: ex contractibus autem ciuiliter quidem non obligantur, sed naturaliter et obligantur et obligant.
[THE SAME, from the seventh book of Disputations.] Slaves indeed incur obligations from delicts, and, if they are manumitted, they remain bound; but from contracts they do not indeed incur obligations under civil law, but under natural law they both incur obligations and bind others.
denique si seruo, qui mihi mutuam pecuniam dederat, manumisso soluam, liberor.
Finally, if I pay a slave, who had lent me money, after he has been manumitted, I am released.

Notes

  1. §44.7.14.probligant — Used transitively, meaning "to bind (others)" or "to impose an obligation (on the other party)" in the context of a contract. An accusative object (such as alios) is understood.
  2. §44.7.14.prseruo ... manumisso — The perfect passive participle manumisso agrees with the dative noun seruo, serving as the indirect object of soluam ("to the slave [who has been] manumitted"). It should not be confused with an ablative absolute.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.7.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.7.14.pr

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