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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.13.10.pr-48.13.10.1

Penalties for Damaging or Altering Public Records

Passage 8321 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section stipulates the penalties under the Lex Julia on embezzlement for removing or altering bronze tablets of laws, land maps, or other similar documents, as well as for erasing or altering public records.

[IDEM ex libro tertio iudiciorum publicorum. ] §48.13.10.prQui tabulam aeream legis formamue agrorum aut quid aliud continentem refixerit uel quid inde immutauerit, lege Iulia peculatus tenetur.
[THE SAME, On Public Prosecutions, Book III.] Anyone who removes a bronze tablet containing a law, or a map of lands, or anything else of the kind, or alters anything on it, is liable under the Lex Julia on embezzlement.
§48.13.10.1Eadem lege tenetur, qui quid in tabulis publicis deleuerit uel induxerit.
Anyone who erases or inserts anything in public records is liable under the same law.

Notes

  1. §48.13.10.prlegis formamue agrorum aut quid aliud continentem — The present participle `continentem` (accusative feminine singular) modifies `tabulam aeream`. It governs `legis` (genitive, either modifying `tabulam` directly as "a tablet of law" or depending on `continentem`), `formam` (accusative, "a map"), and `quid aliud` (accusative, "anything else") in a coordinate structure.
  2. §48.13.10.prrefixerit uel quid inde immutauerit — The verbs `refixerit` and `immutauerit` are in the perfect active subjunctive or future perfect indicative third-person singular. Used within the relative clause `Qui...`, they denote an action prior to the main verb `tenetur` (present tense). `refixere` literally means "to unfix" or "to take down" a posted tablet.
  3. §48.13.10.1induxerit — The verb `inducere` here means "to superinduce," "to write over," or "to insert new writing" on an erased part, pointing to a method of falsifying public records in contrast to `deleuerit` ("to erase").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.13.10.pr-48.13.10.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.13.10.pr-48.13.10.1

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