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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.2.17.pr

Owner's Liability to a Possessor or Pledgee for Killing His Own Slave

Passage 1533 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that if an owner kills his own slave, he will be liable to a possessor in good faith or a pledgee under an action on the case.

[ULPIANUS libro octauo decimo ad edictum. ] §9.2.17.prSi dominus seruum suum occiderit, bonae fidei possessori uel ei qui pignori accepit in factum actione tenebitur.
[ULPIAN, from the eighteenth book on the Edict.] If an owner kills his own slave, he will be liable to a possessor in good faith or to one who received the slave in pledge under an action on the case.

Notes

  1. §9.2.17.prbonae fidei possessori uel ei ... tenebitur — tenebitur (future passive of tenere) is used with the dative to indicate "to be liable to [someone]". Here, the possessor in good faith (possessori) and the pledgee (ei) are indicated in the dative as the parties entitled to bring the action against the owner's wrongful act.
  2. §9.2.17.prpignori accepit — The dative pignori (from pignus) functions as a dative of purpose or end, forming a close idiomatic expression with accipere meaning "to receive as a pledge".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.2.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.17.pr

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