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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.3.8.pr

Penalties for Misconduct and Neglect by Prison Wardens

Passage 8157 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section outlines the penalties for a prison warden who, either through bribery (intentionally) or negligence (unknowingly), allows prisoners to be kept without chains or permits weapons and poison to be smuggled into the prison.

[PAULUS libro singulari de poenis militum. ] §48.3.8.prCarceri praepositus si pretio corruptus sine uinculis agere custodiam uel ferrum uenenumue in carcerem inferri passus est, officio iudicis puniendus est: si nescit, ob neglegentiam remouendus est officio.
[PAULUS, on military punishments, in a single book.] If the person in charge of a prison, corrupted by a bribe, has allowed prisoners to be kept in custody without chains, or has permitted iron weapons or poison to be brought into the prison, he must be punished by the office of the judge; if he is ignorant of it, he must be removed from office on account of negligence.

Notes

  1. §48.3.8.prCarceri praepositus — The noun praepositus (one placed in charge), inheriting the valency of the verb praeponere, takes the dative carceri. The entire phrase functions as the subject of the main verbs puniendus est and remouendus est.
  2. §48.3.8.pragere custodiam — The phrase custodiam agere is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to be kept in custody' or 'to serve detention'. It functions as an accusative with infinitive clause dependent on passus est, though the semantic subject of agere (the prisoners) is omitted as understood from the context.
  3. §48.3.8.prremouendus est officio — The noun officio is an ablative of separation modifying the gerundive remouendus (to be removed). The phrase means 'he must be removed from office'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.3.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.3.8.pr

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