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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.93.pr

Right of Choice in Stipulation to Allow Taking a Slave

Passage 7440 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text states that in a stipulation not to prevent the stipulator from taking one of the slaves owned by the promisor, the choice of which slave to take belongs to the stipulator.

[IDEM libro tertio ad Uitellium. ] §45.1.93.prSi sic stipulatus fuero: 'per te non fieri, quo minus hominem ex his, quos habes, sumam?' electio mea erit.
[The Same, On Vitellius, Book 3] If I should stipulate as follows: 'that it shall not be brought about through you that I do not take one of the slaves whom you have?', the choice will be mine.

Notes

  1. §45.1.93.prstipulatus fuero — Future perfect indicative of the deponent verb stipulor. In the protasis of a conditional sentence, it represents an action that will have been completed prior to the future action of the apodosis (erit).
  2. §45.1.93.prhominem — In Roman legal texts, homo (human being) is frequently used to refer specifically to a slave (seruus).
  3. §45.1.93.prquo minus — Introduces a subjunctive clause (sumam) following expressions of hindering or preventing (here, per te non fieri, 'that it not be brought about through you'), forming a noun clause meaning 'lest...' or 'from doing...'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.93.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.93.pr

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