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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.12.1.pr

Infamy Entailed by the Action for Violating a Tomb

Passage 8059 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that the action for violating a tomb entails the penalty of infamy (infamia).

[ULPIANUS libro secundo ad edictum praetoris. ] §47.12.1.prSepulchri uiolati actio infamiam irrogat.
[ULPIANUS, from the second book on the Edict of the Praetor.] The action for violating a sepulchre imposes infamy.

Notes

  1. §47.12.1.prSepulchri uiolati — The perfect participle uiolati agrees with the genitive noun sepulchri. While literally 'of a violated sepulchre', it semantically denotes the action itself: 'the violation of a sepulchre', which is an instance of the dominant participle construction (similar to ab urbe condita).
  2. §47.12.1.prinfamiam — A technical legal term in Roman law referring to 'infamy' or the loss of civic honor, which is incurred by a person condemned or who compromised in this action.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.12.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.12.1.pr

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