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| ID |
5427 |
| Text |
Ahistulfi Legis anni V (755 - 755) Aistulf |
| Quotation |
Propterea statuimus ut si quis Langobardus pertinentem suum thingare voluerit in quarta manum et cartola illi fecerit et sibi servaverit servitum ipsius dum advixerit et decreverit ut post obidum eius liber sit… Nam qui in ecclesia liberum dimiserit per manus sacerdotis sic maneat ei libertas sicut anterior edictus contenit. |
| Translation |
… Therefore we decree that if any Lombard wishes to thingare [formally alienate] one of his enslaved people into a fourth hand, he may give him a charter and thus reserve the service of that one so long as he lives; after his lord's death the servant shall be completely free… However, if the enslaved person is handed to the priest and set free by him in a church, he shall retain his liberty as the earlier law provides.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 232) |
| Summary |
Asitulf, No. 11 addresses the sitution when an enslaved person has been freed and then refuses to continue working for the person who freed them, and in particular how this then causes lords not to free their enslaved workers. The law seeks to counter this by establishing the possibility of preparing a document [cartola] that will allow the enslaved person to be emanciapted on the death of their lord, rather than immediately. The law concludes by noting that if the enslaved person is emancipated in a church by a priest, then the freedom is retained as in the older law. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 199 |
| Temporal Coverage |
755 - 755 |
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| Comment |
The Ahistulfi Leges (V) form part of the Leges Ahistulfi [Text, ID:1119] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
