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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.18.22.pr

Restrictions on Interrogating Detainees Held Without Accusers

Passage 8381 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A regulation stating that no inquiry should be conducted on persons taken into custody without accusers, unless they are under specific suspicions.

[IDEM libro primo sententiarum. ] §48.18.22.prQui sine accusatoribus in custodiam recepti sunt, quaestio de his habenda non est, nisi si aliquibus suspicionibus urgueantur.
[THE SAME, in the first book of Opinions.] No inquiry is to be held concerning those who have been taken into custody without accusers, unless they are pressed by certain suspicions.

Notes

  1. §48.18.22.prQui... recepti sunt — The relative clause Qui... recepti sunt is placed at the beginning to define the category of persons affected, and is subsequently referred to by de his (concerning them) in the main clause. This structure, where a relative clause is placed first for emphasis and then picked up by a demonstrative pronoun in the main clause, is common in legal Latin.
  2. §48.18.22.prurgueantur — The present subjunctive urgueantur (passive of urguere, "to press" or "to urge") introduced by nisi si (unless) expresses a general or potential condition.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.18.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.18.22.pr

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