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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.5.8.pr

Persons Exempt from Compulsory Testimony

Passage 3261 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A regulation by Scaevola stating that elderly persons in ill health, soldiers, those absent on public business, and those unable to attend are not compelled to testify against their will.

[SCAEUOLA libro quarto regularum. ] §22.5.8.prInuiti testimonium dicere non coguntur senes ualetudinarii uel milites uel qui cum magistratu rei publicae causa absunt uel quibus uenire non licet.
[SCAEUOLA, Rules, Book 4.] Elderly persons in ill health, soldiers, those who are absent on public business with a magistrate, or those who are not permitted to come, are not compelled to give testimony against their will.

Notes

  1. §22.5.8.prinuiti — A nominative plural adjective functioning predicatively to describe the state of the subjects (senes, etc.), meaning 'unwillingly' or 'against their will'.
  2. §22.5.8.prcum magistratu rei publicae causa absunt — Modifying 'absunt' (are absent). The prepositional phrase 'cum magistratu' (with a magistrate) and 'rei publicae causa' (for the sake of the public commonwealth / on public business) function together to indicate absence due to official public service.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.5.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.5.8.pr

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