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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.172.pr

Inclusion of Freedwomen Under the Term Freedman

Passage 8986 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It clarifies the legal consensus that the term 'freedman' also encompasses a freedwoman.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo octauo ad Sabinum. ] §50.16.172.pr'Liberti' appellatione etiam libertam contineri placuit.
[ULPIANUS, in the thirty-eighth book on Sabinus.] It is accepted that the term 'freedman' also includes a freedwoman.

Notes

  1. §50.16.172.prplacuit — The perfect tense of the impersonal verb placere. It takes the accusative and infinitive clause 'etiam libertam... contineri' as its subject, meaning 'it is accepted' or 'it is settled'.
  2. §50.16.172.pr'Liberti' appellatione — Liberti is the genitive singular of libertus. Appellatione is the ablative of appellatio (ablative of means or respect), meaning 'by the term/appellation of "freedman"'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.172.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.172.pr

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