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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.8.5.pr

No Exemption from Penalty by Prior Return of Robbed Goods

Passage 7986 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the principle that a person who has taken property by force cannot escape the penalty even if he restores the stolen property before judgment to avoid it.

[GAIUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §47.8.5.prNon prodest ei qui ui rapuit ad euitandam poenam, si ante iudicium restituat rem quam rapuit.
[GAIUS, on the Provincial Edict, book twenty-one.]\n\nIt does not benefit him who has taken property by force for the purpose of avoiding the penalty, if before judgment he restores the thing which he took by force.

Notes

  1. §47.8.5.prad euitandam poenam — A purpose expression consisting of the preposition ad followed by the accusative noun poenam and the agreeing gerundive euitandam. It modifies the main verb non prodest, meaning that restoring the property does not benefit him 'for the purpose of avoiding the penalty'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.8.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.8.5.pr

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