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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §24.2.8.pr

Penalty for Abducting Another's Wife and Sending a Repudiation

Passage 3587 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The Emperor Hadrian sentenced a man to three years of relegation for taking another's wife during a journey to his own home and sending a divorce notice to her husband from there.

[IDEM libro secundo de adulteriis. ] §24.2.8.prDiuus Hadrianus eum, qui alienam uxorem ex itinere domum suam duxisset et inde marito eius repudium mississet, in triennium relegauit.
[THE SAME, in the second book on Adulteries.] The Divine Hadrian relegated for three years a man who had taken another's wife from her journey to his own house, and from there had sent a notice of divorce to her husband.

Notes

  1. §24.2.8.prex itinere — Meaning "on the journey" or "from the road". There is an ambiguity as to whether it refers to the wife being on a journey or the abductor himself being on the road, but it generally denotes abduction during transit.
  2. §24.2.8.prduxisset ... mississet — Subjunctive pluperfect verbs in the relative clause introduced by qui. They not only indicate actions prior to the main verb relegauit, but also express the characterization or subjective reason in the Emperor Hadrian's rescript (i.e., "a man of such a kind who had...").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §24.2.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:24.2.8.pr

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