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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.107.pr

Meaning of Assigning a Freedman to Children

Passage 8921 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Defines the legal term 'to assign a freedman' as declaring which of the patron's children the freedman is intended to belong to.

[IDEM libro tertio pandectarum. ] §50.16.107.pr'Adsignare libertum' hoc est testificari, cuius ex liberis libertum eum esse uoluit.
[THE SAME, in the third book of the Pandects.] 'To assign a freedman' is to declare which of one's children one wished him to be the freedman of.

Notes

  1. §50.16.107.prcuius ex liberis — The interrogative adjective cuius, combined with the prepositional phrase ex liberis, forms the phrase 'of which of the children' and introduces an indirect question. Structurally, it functions as a genitive qualifying libertum ('the freedman of...') within the accusative and infinitive construction (eum esse...). The subject of uoluit ('wished') is the implied patron (testator).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.107.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.107.pr

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