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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.17.pr

Trust for the Manumission of a Slave Bequeathed to the Writer

Passage 8283 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The passage records a senatorial decree concerning a case where a person wrote a legacy of a slave to himself with his own hand and was requested to manumit him, ruling that all heirs must manumit the slave.

[IDEM libro tertio fideicommissorum. ] §48.10.17.prCum quidam sua manu seruum sibi legatum scripsisset et eum manumittere rogatus esset, senatus censuit ab omnibus heredibus eum manumittendum.
[THE SAME, Trust-Bequests, Book III] When a certain person had written with his own hand a legacy of a slave to himself and had been requested to manumit him, the senate decreed that he should be manumitted by all the heirs.

Notes

  1. §48.10.17.prab omnibus heredibus eum manumittendum — The word manumittendum is a gerundive expressing passive necessity with the infinitive copula esse omitted, serving as the predicate of the accusative-and-infinitive construction governed by censuit. Although the agent of a gerundive is typically expressed by the dative, it is here expressed by the ablative with the preposition ab (ab omnibus heredibus).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.17.pr

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