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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.83.pr

Payment of Past Debt by Freed Slave and Bar to Recovery

Passage 7738 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A doctrine of Pomponius stating that if a person lends money to someone else's slave, purchases and manumits him, the former slave cannot seek recovery of the money paid to settle the debt.

[POMPONIUS libro quarto decimo ex uariis lectionibus. ] §46.3.83.prSi tuo seruo credidero eumque redemero et is manumissus mihi soluerit, non repetet.
[POMPONIUS, in the fourteenth book of Various Readings.] If I lend to your slave and purchase him, and he, after being manumitted, pays me, he shall not seek to recover.

Notes

  1. §46.3.83.prmanumissus — A perfect passive participle in the nominative singular masculine, agreeing with the subject is ("he"). It functions adverbially to express a temporal circumstance: "after having been manumitted" or "once manumitted."
  2. §46.3.83.prcredidero eumque redemero et is manumissus mihi soluerit, non repetet — The verbs in the conditional clause (credidero, redemero, soluerit) are all in the future perfect tense, whereas the verb in the main clause (repetet) is in the simple future. This strictly illustrates the temporal sequence where all the actions in the condition (lending, purchasing, and paying) must be completed before the main action (seeking recovery) takes place.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.83.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.83.pr

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