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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.1.8.pr

Preservation of Statutory Penalties in Extraordinary Proceedings

Passage 8121 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that although the regular procedure for capital public trials has fallen out of use, the penalties prescribed by law remain in force when crimes are proven through extraordinary procedure (extra ordinem).

[PAULUS libro singulari de iudiciis publicis. ] §48.1.8.prOrdo exercendorum publicorum capitalium in usu esse desiit, durante tamen poena legum, cum extra ordinem crimina probantur.
[PAULUS in his single book on Public Trials.] The regular procedure for conducting capital public trials has ceased to be in use; however, the penalty prescribed by the laws remains in force when crimes are proved extra ordinem.

Notes

  1. §48.1.8.prpublicorum capitalium — The noun iudiciorum is omitted, with the entire phrase functioning as a genitive meaning "of capital public trials." It refers to the regular procedure (ordo iudiciorum publicorum) of the classical period.
  2. §48.1.8.prdurante tamen poena legum — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle durante and the noun poena, expressing concession or attendant circumstance. poena legum refers to "the penalty prescribed by the laws" (established by various statutory public laws).
  3. §48.1.8.prextra ordinem — Meaning "outside the order (regular procedure)," this refers to the judicial procedure known as "extraordinary procedure" (cognitio extra ordinem) that developed during the Imperial period. It stands in contrast to the ordo in the main clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.1.8.pr

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