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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.105.pr

Freedpersons of a Freedwoman in a Will

Passage 8919 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus rules that the phrase "to my freedmen and freedwomen" in a will does not include a freedman belonging to a freedwoman of the testator.

[IDEM libro undecimo responsorum. ] §50.16.105.prModestinus respondit his uerbis 'libertis libertabusque meis' libertum libertae testatoris non contineri.
[THE SAME, On Responses, book 11.] Modestinus replied that the freedman of a freedwoman of the testator is not included in these words "to my freedmen and freedwomen".

Notes

  1. §50.16.105.prlibertum libertae testatoris non contineri — An accusative-with-infinitive construction acting as the object of respondit, where libertum is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive contineri. The genitive libertae modifies libertum ("the freedman of the freedwoman"), and testatoris modifies libertae ("of the testator"), forming a nested genitive relation.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.105.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.105.pr

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