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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.16.2.pr

Bar on Further Actions for Abandoning Prosecution

Passage 8337 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provides that a person who has abandoned a prosecution is barred from taking further legal action or bringing accusations.

[Paulus libro singulari de poenis omnium legum. ] §48.16.2.prQui destiterit, agere amplius et accusare prohibetur.
[PAULUS, Single Book on the Penalties of All Laws.] He who has abandoned the prosecution is prohibited from pleading further and from accusing.

Notes

  1. §48.16.2.prdestiterit — Future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) active third-person singular of the verb 'desistere' (to abandon, desist). It indicates a conditional, antecedent action in the relative clause that must occur prior to the prohibition denoted by the present-tense main verb 'prohibetur'.
  2. §48.16.2.pragere amplius — In legal contexts, 'agere' generally means to bring or conduct a lawsuit (to plead, take legal action). Here, combined with the adverb 'amplius' (further, anymore), it signifies that one who has abandoned a prosecution is prohibited from pursuing further legal proceedings.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.16.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.16.2.pr

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