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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.3.7.pr

Governor's Request for Extradition of Suspects Under Guard

Passage 8156 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the practice where governors of provinces where a crime was committed write to colleagues where the perpetrators are active to request their return under guard, which is confirmed by rescripts.

[MACER libro secundo de officio praesidis. ] §48.3.7.prSolent praesides prouinciarum, in quibus delictum est, scribere ad collegas suos, ubi factores agere dicuntur, et desiderare, ut cum prosecutoribus ad se remittantur: et id quoque quibusdam rescriptis declaratur.
[MACER, on the office of governor, book 2.] Governors of provinces in which an offense has been committed are accustomed to write to their colleagues, where the perpetrators are said to be active, and to request that they be sent back to them along with their guards; and this too is declared in certain rescripts.

Notes

  1. §48.3.7.prubi factores agere dicuntur — The relative adverb ubi ('where') refers in effect to the province governed by, or the location of, the antecedent collegas suos ('their colleagues').
  2. §48.3.7.prfactores — Meaning 'doers' or 'perpetrators', referring to the parties who committed the aforementioned delictum (offense).
  3. §48.3.7.prprosecutoribus — Here prosecutores does not mean prosecutors in a lawsuit, but rather the escorts or guards (officials or soldiers) who convey accused persons or prisoners to the jurisdiction.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.3.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.3.7.pr

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