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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.12.7.pr

Ban on Worsening a Sepulchre and Permissible Repair

Passage 8065 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Marcianus states that making the condition of a sepulchre worse is prohibited, but repairing a damaged and fallen monument is permitted as long as the bodies are not disturbed.

[MARCIANUS libro tertio institutionum. ] §47.12.7.prSepulchri deteriorem condicionem fieri prohibitum est: sed corruptum et lapsum monumentum corporibus non contactis licet reficere.
[MARCIANUS in the third book of the Institutes.] It is prohibited for the condition of a sepulchre to be made worse; but it is permitted to repair a monument that has been damaged and has fallen, without touching the bodies.

Notes

  1. §47.12.7.prSepulchri — The genitive noun sepulchri modifies the accusative phrase deteriorem condicionem (the subject of the infinitive fieri), meaning 'the condition of the sepulchre'.
  2. §47.12.7.prcorporibus non contactis — An ablative absolute construction formed by the noun corporibus and the perfect passive participle contactis (from contingere), serving as an adverbial phrase of condition or limitation modifying reficere ('without the bodies being touched/disturbed').

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