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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.12.1.pr

Slave Accusing Master of Food Supply Fraud

Passage 8309 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provisions that a legal action is established between a slave and his master if the slave accuses the master of committing fraud against the public food supply.

[MARCIANUS libro secundo institutionum. ] §48.12.1.prConstitit inter seruum et dominum iudicium, si annonam publicam fraudasse dicat dominum.
[MARCIANUS, in the second book of Institutes.] A trial is allowed between a slave and his master, if the slave asserts that his master has committed fraud regarding the public grain supply.

Notes

  1. §48.12.1.prConstitit — The perfect third-person singular of the verb *consistere* (to be established, to take place). It expresses the valid establishment of a legal trial (iudicium) as an established rule in the perfect tense.
  2. §48.12.1.prdominum — The subject accusative of the infinitive `fraudasse` (perfect active infinitive of *fraudare*) in the accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction governed by `dicat` (whose implied subject is `seruum`). The other accusative `annonam publicam` serves as the direct object of `fraudasse`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.12.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.12.1.pr

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