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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.8.pr

Prohibition of Sale of Slave Managers in Fiscal Estates

Passage 8529 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains a rescript stating that the slave managers of property confiscated to the treasury cannot be sold by procurators, and any such sale is void.

[MODESTINUS libro quinto regularum. ] §49.14.8.prBonorum fisco uindicatorum actores uenundari a procuratoribus non possunt, et, si distrahantur, irritam fieri uenditionem rescriptum est.
[MODESTINUS, in the fifth book of Rules.] The managers of property confiscated to the treasury cannot be sold by the procurators, and, if they are sold, it has been rescripted that the sale is void.

Notes

  1. §49.14.8.prbonorum fisco uindicatorum actores — fisco is a dative governed by the perfect passive participle uindicatorum (which modifies bonorum), meaning "claimed/confiscated for/to the treasury." The entire genitive phrase bonorum...uindicatorum depends on actores. Here, actores refers to slave business managers.
  2. §49.14.8.prirritam fieri uenditionem rescriptum est — rescriptum est is used impersonally, taking the accusative with infinitive clause irritam fieri uenditionem ("that the sale becomes void") as its subject. The adjective irritam agrees in gender, number, and case with uenditionem as the predicate of fieri.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.14.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.14.8.pr

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