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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.18.21.pr

Prohibition of Condemning Solely for Inquiry

Passage 8380 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text quotes a rescript of the deified Hadrian stating that no one should be condemned merely for the purpose of holding an inquiry.

[IDEM libro singulari de poenis paganorum. ] §48.18.21.prQuaestionis habendae causa neminem esse damnandum diuus Hadrianus rescripsit.
[THE SAME, in his single book on the Punishments of Pagans.] The deified Hadrian wrote in a rescript that no one should be condemned for the purpose of holding an inquiry.

Notes

  1. §48.18.21.prquaestionis habendae causa — A gerundive construction where the noun quaestio in the genitive and the agreeing gerundive habenda (genitive feminine singular) modify the postpositional ablative causa ('for the purpose of'), meaning 'for the purpose of holding an inquiry (or torture)'.
  2. §48.18.21.prneminem esse damnandum — An accusative with infinitive (indirect statement) depending on rescripsit. It consists of the negative accusative subject neminem ('no one') and the passive periphrastic infinitive esse damnandum ('to be condemned', expressing obligation or necessity), meaning 'that no one should be condemned'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.18.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.18.21.pr

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