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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.41.pr

Validity of Payments to Accused Defendants

Passage 7696 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that even if a defendant is accused of a crime, nothing prevents them from validly receiving payments from their debtors in the meantime, so that the innocent do not lack necessary funds.

[PAPINIANUS libro primo de adulteriis. ] §46.3.41.prReo criminis postulato interim nihil prohibet recte pecuniam a debitoribus solui: alioquin plerique innocentium necessario sumptu egebunt.
[PAPINIANUS in the first book On Adulteries.] While a person is accused of a crime, in the meantime nothing prevents money from being validly paid by debtors; otherwise, most of the innocent will lack the necessary means.

Notes

  1. §46.3.41.prreo criminis postulato — An ablative absolute consisting of the noun reo (ablative singular of reus, "defendant") and the perfect passive participle postulato (ablative singular of postulo, "to accuse/prosecute"), with criminis (genitive of charge) depending on postulato. It denotes a temporal or circumstantial background ("while a person is accused of a crime").
  2. §46.3.41.prnecessario sumptu — The phrase is in the ablative case (sumptus, "expense/means") because it is governed by the verb egebunt (third-person plural future of egeo, "to lack/need"), which regularly takes the ablative.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.41.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.41.pr

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