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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.13.3.pr

Penalties for Embezzlement and Loss of Rights and Property

Passage 8314 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains the punishment for the embezzlement of public funds, which was the interdiction of water and fire (succeeded today by deportation), and notes that anyone reduced to this status loses both their former rights and their property.

[ULPIANUS libro primo de adulteriis. ] §48.13.3.prPeculatus poena aquae et ignis interdictionem, in quam hodie successit deportatio, continet.
[ULPIANUS on Adultery, Book I] The punishment for embezzlement of public funds consists of the interdiction of water and fire, which has today been succeeded by deportation.
porro qui in eum statum deducitur, sicut omnia pristina iura, ita et bona amittit.
Furthermore, anyone who is reduced to that status loses his property just as he does all his former rights.

Notes

  1. §48.13.3.prpeculatus — Genitive singular of the fourth-declension noun peculatus (embezzlement of public funds). It functions as an objective genitive modifying poena, meaning 'the punishment for embezzlement.'
  2. §48.13.3.prin quam — Feminine accusative singular of the relative pronoun qui, referring back to the feminine singular noun interdictionem. Together with the verb successit (perfect of succedere), it forms the construction succedere in + accusative, meaning 'to succeed to' or 'to take the place of.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.13.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.13.3.pr

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