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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.22.pr

Action for Free Person Apprehended as Runaway Slave

Passage 8024 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that if a free person is mistakenly apprehended as a runaway slave, they can bring an action for injury against the captor.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad edictum praetoris. ] §47.10.22.prSi liber pro fugitiuo adprehensus erit, iniuriarum cum eo agit.
[ULPIANUS in the first book on the Edict of the Praetor] If a free person has been apprehended as a runaway slave, he brings an action for injury against him.

Notes

  1. §47.10.22.priniuriarum cum eo agit — A legal expression where the verb 'agere' (to bring an action) takes the charge in the genitive case ('iniuriarum', plural genitive of 'iniuria'), and the defendant is indicated by 'cum' with the ablative ('eo', referring to the person who apprehended him). The subject of 'agit' is 'liber' (the free person), which is also the subject of the conditional clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.22.pr

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