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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.20.3.pr

Confiscation of Dowry for Women Condemned of Major Crimes

Passage 8427 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provides that the dowry of a woman condemned under five specific laws (treason, public violence, parricide, poisoning, and assassins) shall be confiscated.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §48.20.3.prQuinque legibus damnatae mulieri dos publicatur: maiestatis, uis publicae, parricidii, uenefici, de sicariis:
[ULPIAN, from the Thirty-third Book on the Edict.] The dowry of a woman condemned under five laws is confiscated: those concerning treason, public violence, parricide, poisoning, and assassins:

Notes

  1. §48.20.3.prdamnatae... de sicariis — The participle damnatae (dative, modifying mulieri) governs the charges or laws under which the woman is condemned, expressed by the genitives (maiestatis, uis publicae, parricidii, uenefici) and the prepositional phrase (de sicariis). These refer respectively to the lex Iulia maiestatis, lex Iulia de ui publica, lex Pompeia de parricidiis, and lex Cornelia de sicariis et ueneficis.
  2. §48.20.3.prmulieri... dos — The dative mulieri functions as a dative of disadvantage or a possessive dative in relation to dos, meaning "the dowry of the woman [is confiscated]".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.20.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.20.3.pr

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