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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.11.3.pr

Bribery in Judicial Decisions under the Julian Extortion Law

Passage 8302 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents the provision under the Lex Julia on extortion regarding anyone holding authority who accepts money to give, withhold, or make a judicial decision.

[MACER libro primo publicorum. ] §48.11.3.prLege Iulia repetundarum tenetur, qui, cum aliquam potestatem haberet, pecuniam ob iudicandum uel non iudicandum decernendumue acceperit:
[MACER, in the first book of Public Prosecutions.] Anyone who, while holding some authority, has accepted money for giving a judgment, not giving a judgment, or making a decree, is held liable under the Lex Julia on extortion.

Notes

  1. §48.11.3.prtenetur, qui — The demonstrative pronoun (such as is) serving as the subject of the main clause is omitted; the clause forms a relative conditional structure 'he who... is held liable'. The verb acceperit in the relative clause is in the perfect subjunctive (or future perfect indicative), indicating a hypothetical completed action.
  2. §48.11.3.prob iudicandum uel non iudicandum decernendumue — The preposition ob (for, on account of) governs the accusative and applies to all the coordinate gerunds in the accusative: iudicandum, non iudicandum, and decernendum (connected by the enclitic -ue).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.11.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.11.3.pr

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