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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.1.13.pr-48.1.13.1

Prohibition of Procurators and Accuser's Death in Public Crimes

Passage 8126 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment rules on the continuation of a trial by another person upon the death of the accuser, the prohibition of using a procurator in public crimes, and the postponement of a sentence based on the excuses of absent parties.

[PAPINIANUS libro quinto decimo responsorum. ] §48.1.13.prAccusatore defuncto res ab alio, iudicante praeside prouinciae, peragi potest.
[PAPINIANUS in his fifteenth book of Opinions.] When the accuser has died, the case can be carried on by another person, while the governor of the province acts as judge.
§48.1.13.1Ad crimen iudicii publici persequendum frustra procurator interuenit, multoque magis ad defendendum: sed excusationes absentium ex senatus consulto iudicibus allegantur et, si iustam rationem habeant, sententia differtur.
A procurator intervenes in vain for the purpose of prosecuting a public crime, and much more so for defending against it; but the excuses of absent persons are presented to the judges in accordance with a senatusconsultum, and, if they have a just cause, the sentence is postponed.

Notes

  1. 48.1.13.priudicante praeside prouinciae — An ablative absolute with the present participle iudicante, expressing the situational circumstance under which the main verb peragi potest (can be carried on) occurs, meaning 'with the governor of the province acting as judge.'
  2. 48.1.13.1Ad crimen iudicii publici persequendum — A gerundive construction expressing purpose, where the preposition ad governs the accusative gerundive persequendum (from persequor), with the noun crimen functioning as its grammatical object ('for the purpose of prosecuting a public crime').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.1.13.pr-48.1.13.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.1.13.pr-48.1.13.1

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