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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.20.2.pr

Confiscation of Property Only After Condemnation

Passage 8426 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It conveys the rescript of the deified Hadrian stating that a person's property should not be confiscated upon imprisonment, but only after condemnation.

[IDEM libro sexto de cognitionibus. ] §48.20.2.prNon ut quis in carcerem ductus est, spoliari eum oportet, sed post condemnationem: idque diuus Hadrianus rescripsit.
[THE SAME, from the Sixth Book on Extraordinary Cognitions.] A person ought not to be despoiled as soon as he is taken to prison, but after condemnation; and this the deified Hadrian stated in a rescript.

Notes

  1. §48.20.2.prut — The conjunction ut here, taking the indicative perfect ductus est, expresses a temporal relation: "as soon as" or "when".
  2. §48.20.2.prspoliari eum oportet — The impersonal verb oportet ("it is proper", "one ought") takes the accusative with passive infinitive (eum spoliari). spoliari is the present passive infinitive of spolio ("to despoil", "to strip"), here meaning the confiscation of property.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.20.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.20.2.pr

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