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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.1.7.pr

Crimes and Actions Where Condemnation Inflicts Infamy

Passage 8120 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Macer explains the criteria for when a judgment inflicts infamy, stating that it is generally restricted to public trials, except for private actions that carry infamy upon condemnation, such as theft, robbery, or injuries.

[MACER libro secundo iudiciorum publicorum. ] §48.1.7.prInfamem non ex omni crimine sententia facit, sed ex eo, quod iudicii publici causam habuit.
[MACER in the second book on Public Trials.] A judgment does not make a person infamous from every crime, but from that which had the cause of a public trial.
itaque ex eo crimine, quod iudicii publici non fuit, damnatum infamia non sequetur, nisi id crimen ex ea actione fuit, quae etiam in priuato iudicio infamiam condemnato inportat, ueluti furti, ui bonorum raptorum, iniuriarum.
Therefore, infamy will not follow a person condemned for a crime which was not of a public trial, unless that crime arose from such an action as imports infamy upon the person condemned even in a private trial, such as theft, robbery with violence, or injuries.

Notes

  1. §48.1.7.priudicii publici — Genitive of iudicium publicum (public trial). In Roman law, this refers to criminal proceedings that try crimes affecting the public or the state, contrasted with iudicium priuatum (private trial) which handles civil disputes between individuals.
  2. §48.1.7.prcondemnato — Masculine singular dative of the perfect passive participle of condemno (to condemn). It functions as the dative object of inportat (imports), indicating the person upon whom infamy is legally imposed.
  3. §48.1.7.prfurti, ui bonorum raptorum, iniuriarum — All in the genitive case, modifying and explaining the preceding ea actione (that action). They represent specific examples of infamous actions (actiones famosae) in private law which carry infamy upon condemnation, namely the actions for theft, robbery with violence, and injuries.

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