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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.11.1.pr-48.11.1.1

Scope of the Julian Extortion Law and Exceptions for Kin

Passage 8300 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage defines the scope of the Julian Law on extortion regarding moneys received by public officials or their retinue, and specifies the exceptions allowed for certain relatives.

[MARCIANUS libro quarto decimo institutionum. ] §48.11.1.prLex Iulia repetundarum pertinet ad eas pecunias, quas quis in magistratu potestate curatione legatione uel quo alio officio munere ministerioue publico cepit, uel cum ex cohorte cuius eorum est.
[MARCIANUS, in the fourteenth book of the Institutes.] The Julian Law on extortion relates to those moneys which anyone has received while in a magistracy, power, administration, embassy, or any other public office, duty, or service, or when he is of the cohort of any of them.
§48.11.1.1Excipit lex, a quibus licet accipere: a sobrinis propioreue gradu cognatis suis, uxore.
The law excepts those from whom it is permitted to receive: namely, from second cousins, or those related by blood in a closer degree, and from a wife.

Notes

  1. 48.11.1.prcuius eorum — Here, 'cuius' functions as the genitive of the indefinite pronoun 'quis' (in place of 'alicuius') within this context, modifying the demonstrative pronoun 'eorum' (which refers to the aforementioned office holders). Thus, it is interpreted as 'of any of them'.
  2. 48.11.1.1excipit lex, a quibus licet accipere — The relative clause 'a quibus...' has its antecedent (such as 'eos') omitted, serving as the direct object of the verb 'excipit'. The structure means 'the law excepts [those] from whom it is permitted to receive'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.11.1.pr-48.11.1.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.11.1.pr-48.11.1.1

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