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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.2.9.pr

Prohibition of Suborned False Witnesses from Accusing

Passage 8136 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Mentions those who have been suborned to give false testimony as another class of persons prohibited from accusing, on account of the suspicion of false accusation.

[PAULUS libro quinto sententiarum. ] §48.2.9.pralii propter suspicionem calumniae, ut illi, qui falsum testimonium subornati dixerunt:
[PAULUS, Sentences, Book 5] others on account of the suspicion of false accusation, such as those who, having been suborned, have given false testimony.

Notes

  1. 48.2.9.prsubornati — A perfect passive participle in the nominative plural masculine, agreeing with the relative pronoun `qui` and functioning adverbially to modify the verb `dixerunt`, indicating manner or cause ("having been suborned" or "instigated").
  2. 48.2.9.prcalumniae — A genitive modifying the noun `suspicio` ("suspicion"). It can be interpreted either as an objective genitive ("suspicion of [committing] false accusation") or as a genitive of definition ("the suspicion of calumny").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.2.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.2.9.pr

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