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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.3.3.pr

Validity of Stipulations Made by Public Slaves

Passage 7511 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus states his opinion that a stipulation made by a slave belonging to the state, a municipium, or a colony is valid.

[IDEM libro quinto ad Sabinum. ] §45.3.3.prSi seruus rei publicae uel municipii uel coloniae stipuletur, puto ualere stipulationem.
[THE SAME, in the fifth book on Sabinus.] If a slave of the state, or of a municipium, or of a colony should make a stipulation, I think that the stipulation is valid.

Notes

  1. §45.3.3.prrei publicae uel municipii uel coloniae — Possessive genitives modifying the noun "seruus", indicating that the slave belongs to these public corporate bodies (the state, a municipium, or a colony).
  2. §45.3.3.prputo ualere stipulationem — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of the verb "puto", where "stipulationem" is the subject accusative and "ualere" is the infinitive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.3.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.3.3.pr

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