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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.16.11.pr

Limits on Legates' Penal Powers and Referral to Proconsul

Passage 196 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It regulates that since a legate does not have the power of severe punishment, coercion, or flogging, he must refer matters requiring greater punishment to the proconsul.

[UENULEIUS SATURNINUS libro secundo de officio proconsulis. ] §1.16.11.prSi quid erit quod maiorem animaduersionem exigat, reicere legatus apud proconsulem debet: neque enim animaduertendi coercendi uel atrociter uerberandi ius habet.
[VENULEIUS SATURNINUS, from the second book On the Office of Proconsul.] If there is anything that requires greater punishment, the legate must refer it to the proconsul; for he does not have the right of punishing, coercing, or severely flogging.

Notes

  1. §1.16.11.prreicere — Dependent on the verb debet, implicitly taking the indefinite pronoun quid from the preceding clause as its object.
  2. §1.16.11.pranimaduertendi coercendi uel atrociter uerberandi — These are coordinate gerunds in the genitive case modifying the noun ius.

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