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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.4.6.pr

Freed Slave's Own Liability for Past Delicts

Passage 1587 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the manumitted slave himself is also held liable for a delict committed while in slavery.

[IDEM libro octauo decimo ad edictum. ] §9.4.6.prSed et ipse seruus manumissus tenetur.
[THE SAME, Book 18 on the Edict] But the manumitted slave himself is also held liable.

Notes

  1. §9.4.6.pripse seruus manumissus — The perfect participle manumissus (manumitted) modifies seruus (slave), and together with the intensive pronoun ipse (himself), indicates that once the slave is freed, the liability for a delict committed during slavery shifts to the former slave himself.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.4.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.4.6.pr

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