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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.3.5.pr

Custody of Confessed Defendants in Prison Until Sentence

Passage 8154 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It rules that if an accused person confesses, they must be detained in a public prison until the final judgment is pronounced.

[UENULEIUS SATURNINUS libro secundo de iudiciis publicis. ] §48.3.5.prSi confessus fuerit reus, donec de eo pronuntietur, in uincula publica coiciendus est.
[VENULEIUS SATURNINUS, On Public Trials, Book 2] If the accused has confessed, until sentence is pronounced concerning him, he must be cast into public prison.

Notes

  1. §48.3.5.prconfessus fuerit — The future perfect (or perfect) form of the deponent verb confiteor, expressing an active meaning ('has confessed') as a prior condition to the action in the main clause.
  2. §48.3.5.prdonec de eo pronuntietur — The present subjunctive pronuntietur is used in the donec clause to denote an anticipated temporal limit. The verb pronuntio is employed here in an impersonal passive construction (literally, 'until it is pronounced concerning him').

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