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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.32.pr-48.10.32.1

Penalties for Tampering with Edicts and Falsifying Measures

Passage 8298 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus discusses the punishments for maliciously tampering with posted edicts and for falsifying or tampering with weights and measures in trade.

[MODESTINUS libro primo de poenis. ] §48.10.32.prodie qui edicta proposita dolo malo corrumpunt, falsi poena plectuntur.
[MODESTINUS, in the first book on Punishments.] Today, those who with malicious intent tamper with posted edicts are punished with the penalty of forgery.
§48.10.32.1Si uenditor mensuras publice probatas uini, frumenti uel cuiuslibet rei, aut emptor corruperit doloue malo fraudem fecerit: quanti ea res est, eius dupli condemnatur: decretoque diui Hadriani praeceptum est in insulam eos relegari, qui pondera aut mensuras falsassent.
If a seller or a buyer tampers with publicly approved measures of wine, grain, or any other thing, or with malicious intent commits a fraud, he is condemned to double the value of that property; and by a decree of the Divine Hadrian, it was ordered that those who had falsified weights or measures should be relegated to an island.

Notes

  1. §48.10.32.prfalsi — Genitive of the charge or crime, indicating the offense for which the penalty is imposed. It is the genitive singular of the neuter noun `falsum` (forgery, crime of forgery), referring here to the penalty under the Cornelian Law on Forgeries (lex Cornelia de falsis).
  2. §48.10.32.1eius dupli — Genitive of value or penalty, expressing the double amount of the property's worth. Together with the preceding relative clause `quanti ea res est` (of whatever value the thing is), it specifies the measure of the fine to which the offender is condemned (condemnatur).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.32.pr-48.10.32.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.32.pr-48.10.32.1

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