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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.40.pr

Loss of Decurion Status for Conviction of Atrocious Injury

Passage 8042 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the ruling of the deified Severus that anyone convicted of an atrocious injury cannot remain in the order of decurions, and that no administrative or judicial errors by officials can benefit the convicted person to bypass this rule.

[MACER libro secundo publicorum iudiciorum. ] §47.10.40.prDiuus Seuerus Dionysio Diogeni ita scripsit: 'Atrocis iniuriae damnatus in ordine decurionum esse non potest.
[MACER in the second book on Public Prosecutions.] The deified Severus wrote thus to Dionysius Diogenes: "A person convicted of an atrocious injury cannot belong to the order of decurions.
nec prodesse tibi debet error praesidum aut eius, qui de te aliquid pronuntiauit, aut eorum, qui contra formam iuris mansisse te in ordine decurionum putauerunt'.
Nor should you benefit from the error of the governors, or of him who pronounced any judgment concerning you, or of those who, contrary to the rule of law, thought that you had remained in the order of decurions."

Notes

  1. §47.10.40.prAtrocis iniuriae — Genitive of charge (or crime) modified by the participle damnatus.
  2. §47.10.40.prerror praesidum aut eius... aut eorum — Three genitives—the noun praesidum and the pronouns eius and eorum—are coordinated to modify the single head noun error. The pronouns eius and eorum function as antecedents of their respective relative qui-clauses.
  3. §47.10.40.prmansisse te in ordine decurionum putauerunt — An accusative with infinitive construction (subject accusative te, perfect infinitive mansisse) serving as the object of putauerunt. The perfect infinitive denotes a state prior to or concurrent with the past thinking of the subjects.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.40.pr

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