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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.33.pr

Penalty of Exile for Using False Imperial Constitutions

Passage 8299 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus states that anyone who uses false imperial constitutions without a verified author is subject to interdiction from water and fire under the Cornelian Law.

[IDEM libro tertio de poenis. ] §48.10.33.prSi quis falsis constitutionibus nullo auctore habito utitur, lege Cornelia aqua et igni ei interdicitur.
[THE SAME, in the third book on Punishments.] If anyone uses false constitutions without having any author for them, he is interdicted from water and fire under the Cornelian Law.

Notes

  1. §48.10.33.prnullo auctore habito — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun auctor (author, guarantor) and the participle habito, meaning "in a state where no author or guarantor is held or recognized."
  2. §48.10.33.praqua et igni ei interdicitur — A passive impersonal construction of the verb interdicere (to forbid). It follows the idiomatic pattern of forbidding someone (dative, ei) from something (ablative, aqua et igni), referring to the punishment of banishment (interdiction from water and fire) in ancient Rome.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.33.pr

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