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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.11.9.pr

Bribery Charges for Neglecting Public Duty for Money

Passage 8308 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that those who have neglected public duties entrusted to them by accepting money are prosecuted for the crime of extortion.

[PAPINIANUS libro quinto decimo responsorum. ] §48.11.9.prQui munus publice mandatum accepta pecunia ruperunt, crimine repetundarum postulantur.
[PAPINIANUS, in the fifteenth book of Opinions.] Those who have violated a public duty entrusted to them, having accepted money, are prosecuted for the crime of extortion.

Notes

  1. §48.11.9.praccepta pecunia — An ablative absolute phrase consisting of the noun pecunia and the perfect participle accepta, expressing the means or attendant circumstance ('having accepted money') in relation to the verb ruperunt.
  2. §48.11.9.prcrimine repetundarum — crimine is an ablative of charge. repetundarum is the genitive of repetundae (with res understood), meaning 'things to be recovered', which refers to the crime of extortion under Roman law.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.11.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.11.9.pr

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