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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.29.pr

Survival of Action for Injury after Slave Alienation

Passage 8031 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that the right of action for injuries sustained through a slave remains with the owner even after the slave is manumitted or alienated.

[PAULUS libro decimo ad Sabinum. ] §47.10.29.prSi seruum, cuius nomine iniuriarum actio tibi competit, manumiseris aut alienaueris, superest tibi iniuriarum actio.
[PAULUS in the tenth book on Sabinus.] If you manumit or alienate a slave, on whose account an action for injuries is competent to you, the action for injuries remains with you.

Notes

  1. §47.10.29.prcuius nomine — The genitive relative pronoun cuius refers to the antecedent seruum. The ablative nomine (from nomen) here means 'in the name of' or 'on account of', indicating the subject (the slave) whose injury gave rise to the action for the master (tibi).
  2. §47.10.29.prmanumiseris aut alienaueris — Both are second-person singular active forms of either the future perfect indicative or the perfect subjunctive, representing actions (manumission or alienation) in the conditional clause (Si...) that occur prior to the state of affairs in the main clause (superest).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.29.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.29.pr

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