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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.30.pr-48.10.30.1

Counterfeit Seals and Accusation of Child Substitution

Passage 8296 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Provisions on the liability under the Cornelian Law on Wills for anyone who makes a counterfeit seal, and the restriction of the right to bring an accusation regarding a supposititious child to the parents or interested parties.

[IDEM libro duodecimo pandectarum. ] §48.10.30.prLege Cornelia testamentaria obligatur, qui signum adulterinum fecerit sculpserit.
[BY THE SAME, in the twelfth book of his Pandects.] Under the Cornelian Law on Wills, anyone who has made or engraved a counterfeit seal is liable.
§48.10.30.1De partu supposito soli accusant parentes aut hi, ad quos ea res pertineat: non quilibet ex populo ut publicam accusationem intendat.
Concerning a supposititious child, only the parents, or those to whom the matter pertains, may bring an accusation; not just any member of the public may bring a public prosecution.

Notes

  1. §48.10.30.prfecerit sculpserit — Two future perfect verbs are placed side by side without a conjunction (asyndeton). In context, they are understood in a disjunctive sense ('made or engraved').
  2. §48.10.30.1non quilibet ex populo ut — The ut clause with the present subjunctive intendat functions to express the result or limitation of the main clause, meaning 'it does not follow that just any member of the public may bring a prosecution.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.30.pr-48.10.30.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.30.pr-48.10.30.1

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