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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.19.pr-48.10.19.1

Abandoning Minting False Coins and Accusation of Child Substitution

Passage 8285 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citation from Book V of Paul's Opinions. It rules that those who abandon the complete minting of false money are acquitted by timely repentance, and that the accusation of substituting a child is not subject to any statute of limitations, regardless of whether the accused woman is deceased.

[IDEM libro quinto sententiarum. ] §48.10.19.prQui falsam monetam percusserint, si id totum formare noluerunt, suffragio iustae paenitentiae absoluuntur.
[THE SAME, Opinions, Book V] Those who have struck false money, if they did not wish to complete the whole of it, are acquitted by the benefit of a just repentance.
§48.10.19.1Accusatio suppositi partus nulla temporis praescriptione depellitur, nec interest, decesserit nec ne ea, quae partum subdidisse contenditur.
The accusation of a substituted birth is not barred by any prescription of time, nor does it matter whether she has died or not, who is alleged to have substituted the birth.

Notes

  1. §48.10.19.prid totum formare — Meaning 'to shape or complete the whole of it.' It refers to not completing the execution of minting false money to a fully finished state.
  2. §48.10.19.prsuffragio iustae paenitentiae — suffragio originally means 'vote' or 'support,' but here it is used in the ablative meaning 'benefit' or 'help.' It is limited by the genitive iustae paenitentiae (just repentance/timely change of mind), referring to the acquittal due to voluntary abandonment of the crime before completion.
  3. §48.10.19.1decesserit nec ne ea, quae partum subdidisse contenditur — Following the impersonal verb nec interest (it does not matter), the indirect question clause decesserit nec ne ea (whether she has died or not) functions as the subject. ea is the antecedent of the relative pronoun quae. Within the relative clause, the passive verb contenditur (is alleged/contended) is combined with the infinitive subdidisse (to have substituted) in a Nominative with Infinitive (NCI) construction.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.19.pr-48.10.19.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.19.pr-48.10.19.1

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