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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.17.5.pr-48.17.5.3

Sealing and Sale of Property Belonging to Fugitives

Passage 8358 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Provisions of mandates and rescripts regarding the administration of the property of persons to be searched for. It discusses the sealing of property within a year, the sale of movable goods during this period, and the prohibition of payments by debtors.

[MODESTINUS libro duodecimo pandectarum. ] §48.17.5.prMandatis cauetur intra annum requirendorum bona obsignari, ut, si redierint et se purgauerint, integram rem suam habeant: si neque responderint neque qui se defendant habuerint, tunc post annum bona in fiscum coguntur.
[Modestinus, Pandects, Book 12.] It is provided in the mandates that within a year the goods of those to be searched for are to be sealed, so that, if they return and clear themselves, they may have their property intact; but if they neither answer nor have anyone to defend them, then after a year the goods are to be confiscated to the fiscus.
§48.17.5.1Et intra annum medio tempore mouentia si qua sunt, ne aut mora deteriora fiant aut aliquo modo intereant, uenire debere pretiumque eorum in deposito esse, diui Seuerus et Antoninus sanxerunt.
And the divine Severus and Antoninus decreed that if there are any movable things within the year in the meantime, they must be sold, lest they either deteriorate by delay or perish in some way, and their price must be in deposit.
§48.17.5.2Sed et diuus Traianus inter mouentia fructus quoque haberi rescripsit.
But the divine Trajan also replied by rescript that fruits also are to be held among movable things.
§48.17.5.3Curandum est autem, ne quid ei qui profugit medio tempore a debitoribus eius soluatur, ne per hoc fuga eius instruatur.
Moreover, care must be taken lest anything be paid in the meantime to him who has fled by his debtors, lest by this his flight be provisioned.

Notes

  1. §48.17.5.prrequirendorum — The genitive plural of the gerundive requirendus ('to be searched for'), here used substantively to mean 'those who are to be searched for,' functioning as a possessive genitive modifying bona.
  2. §48.17.5.prqui se defendant — The verb defendant in the relative clause is in the subjunctive mood (present active third-person plural). It functions as a subjunctive of characteristic, indicating a general class of persons ('anyone who would defend them').
  3. §48.17.5.1mouentia — The neuter plural of the present participle mouens ('moving'), used substantively in legal texts to refer to 'movable things' (res mobiles).
  4. §48.17.5.3instruatur — The verb instruere generally means 'to prepare, equip,' but here it is used in the sense of 'to provide funds, facilitate, or provision' for the fugitive to sustain his flight, and in the passive voice it means 'to be provisioned or assisted.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.17.5.pr-48.17.5.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.17.5.pr-48.17.5.3

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