Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.60.pr

Usucapion of Another's Slave in Accord and Satisfaction

Passage 7715 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that a debtor who has given someone else's slave in lieu of payment is released from liability once the slave has been acquired by the creditor through usucapion.

[IDEM libro quarto ad Plautium. ] §46.3.60.prIs, qui alienum hominem in solutum dedit, usucapto homine liberatur.

[THE SAME, in his fourth book on Plautius.] He who has given another's slave in payment is released when the slave has been acquired by usucapion.

Notes

§46.3.60.prin solutum — A legal idiom meaning "in payment" or "as performance in lieu of fulfillment," referring to giving something other than the original debt to discharge the obligation.
§46.3.60.prusucapto homine — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the perfect passive participle usucapto and the noun homine, expressing the condition or cause ("by the slave being acquired by usucapion") of the release. In Roman legal texts, homo ("person") regularly denotes a "slave."

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