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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.43.pr

Extraordinary Punishments for Calumnious Claims of Injury

Passage 8045 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section prescribes the specific punishments, such as exile, relegation, or removal from one's order, to be imposed extra ordinem on those who bring an action for damages through calumny.

[GAIUS libro tertio regularum. ] §47.10.43.prQui iniuriarum actionem per calumniam instituit, extra ordinem damnatur: id est exilium aut relegationem aut ordinis amotionem patiatur.
[GAIUS in the third book of Rules.] He who brings an action for damages through calumny is condemned extra ordinem; that is, he should suffer exile, or relegation, or removal from his order.

Notes

  1. §47.10.43.prextra ordinem — Refers to the extraordinary procedure (cognitio extra ordinem) where a magistrate or official judges directly, outside the framework of ordinary civil or criminal trials (ordo iudiciorum).
  2. §47.10.43.prpatiatur — Third-person singular present subjunctive of the verb patior (to suffer, undergo). Introduced by "id est" (that is), it expresses the specific punishments that the condemned person ought to undergo.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.43.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.43.pr

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