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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.15.6.pr-49.15.6.1

Status of a Condemned Laborer Captured and Ransomed

Passage 8577 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text rules that a woman sentenced to salt-works labor who was captured by bandits and then ransomed returns to her former penal status, and that the centurion who ransomed her must be refunded the price from the fiscus.

[IDEM libro primo ex uariis lectionibus. ] §49.15.6.prMulier in opus salinarum ob maleficium data et deinde a latrunculis exterae gentis capta et iure commercii uendita ac redempta in causam suam reccidit.
[THE SAME AUTHOR, from the First Book of Miscellanies.] A woman who was sentenced to labor in the salt works on account of a crime, and was subsequently captured by bandits of a foreign nation, sold by the law of commerce, and then ransomed, relapses into her former status.
§49.15.6.1Cocceio autem Firmo centurioni pretium ex fisco reddendum est.
But to the centurion Cocceius Firmus, the price must be refunded from the fiscus.

Notes

  1. §49.15.6.prin causam suam — Meaning "into her former (legal) status." Here, causa refers to "legal standing" or "condition" rather than "cause" or "reason." She had been sentenced to forced labor in the salt works, and upon being ransomed from the bandits, she relapses into that same penal condition.
  2. §49.15.6.1Cocceio autem Firmo centurioni — Dative case. Used in connection with the gerundive reddendum est (must be refunded) to indicate either the person to whom the payment is made (dative of advantage/reference) or the agent. In this context, it designates the recipient: "to the centurion Cocceius Firmus, the price must be refunded from the fiscus."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.15.6.pr-49.15.6.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.15.6.pr-49.15.6.1

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