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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.5.16.pr

Punishment for Perjury and Betrayal by Witnesses

Passage 3269 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that those who give false or contradictory testimony, or leak information to both parties, are to be appropriately punished by the judges.

[IDEM libro quinto sententiarum. ] §22.5.16.prQuis falso uel uarie testimonia dixerunt uel utrique parti prodiderunt, a iudicibus competenter puniuntur.
[THE SAME, in his fifth book of Opinions.] Those who have given false or contradictory testimony, or have betrayed information to both parties, are appropriately punished by the judges.

Notes

  1. §22.5.16.prQuis — Although quis is normally an interrogative or indefinite pronoun, it is used here as a variant or equivalent of the nominative plural relative pronoun qui ("those who"), introducing the relative clause that serves as the subject of the main verb puniuntur. It is not the dative/ablative plural form of qui.
  2. §22.5.16.prutrique parti prodiderunt — utrique parti is the feminine dative singular of the pronominal adjective uterque ("each of the two"), serving as the dative object of prodiderunt (from prodere, "to betray" or "to disclose"). It refers to the act of leaking information or playing double agent to both opposing parties in a lawsuit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.5.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.5.16.pr

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