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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.12.pr

Non-transmission of profits upon the accused's death

Passage 8278 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that if a person accused of forgery dies before judgment, although criminal prosecution ceases, the gains acquired from the crime are not transmitted to the heir.

[PAPINIANUS libro tertio decimo responsorum. ] §48.10.12.prCum falsi reus ante crimen illatum aut sententiam dictam uita decedit, cessante Cornelia quod scelere quaesitum est heredi non relinquitur.
[PAPINIANUS, Responsa, Book XIII] When a person accused of forgery departs from life before an accusation is brought or sentence is pronounced, although the Cornelian law ceases to apply, that which was acquired through the crime is not left to the heir.

Notes

  1. §48.10.12.prante crimen illatum aut sententiam dictam — A construction of the 'ab urbe condita' type, where the nouns combined with passive perfect participles (crimen illatum, sententia dicta) governed by the preposition 'ante' express the occurrence of the action itself: 'before an accusation is brought or sentence is pronounced.'
  2. §48.10.12.prcessante Cornelia — An ablative absolute composed of the present participle 'cessante' and the feminine singular ablative 'Cornelia' (referring to the Lex Cornelia de falsis, the Cornelian law on forgery). It concessively or circumstantially indicates that the application of the Cornelian law as a criminal procedure ceases due to the defendant's death.
  3. §48.10.12.prquod scelere quaesitum est — The relative pronoun 'quod' implies its own antecedent and forms a noun clause that functions as the subject of the main clause ('is not left to the heir'). It means 'that which was acquired through the crime.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.12.pr

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