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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.19.23.pr

Presumption of Ten-Year Sentence for Mines

Passage 8404 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment states that when a person is condemned to the mines without a specified term, a ten-year term is deemed to be prescribed due to the magistrate's lack of skill.

[IDEM libro octauo regularum. ] §48.19.23.prSine praefinito tempore in metallum dato imperitia dantis decennii tempora praefinita uidentur.
[THE SAME, from the eighth book of Rules.] In the case of a person condemned to the mines without a predefined term, due to the lack of skill of the person imposing the sentence, a term of ten years is deemed to have been predefined.

Notes

  1. §48.19.23.prin metallum dato — Dative masculine singular of the perfect passive participle datus (from in metallum dare, "to condemn to the mines"), used substantively ("to one who has been condemned"). It functions as a dative of reference relative to the whole clause.
  2. §48.19.23.prdantis — Genitive singular of the present active participle dans ("the one who gives", here referring to the magistrate who imposes the sentence). It is a subjective genitive modifying the noun imperitia ("the lack of skill of the one imposing the sentence").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.19.23.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.19.23.pr

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