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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.4.10.pr

Surrendering Provinces or Cities to Enemies and Treason

Passage 8173 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that anyone who maliciously betrays a province or city to the enemy can be accused of the crime of treason.

[IDEM libro sexto iuris epitomarum. ] §48.4.10.prMaiestatis crimine accusari potest, cuius ope consilio dolo malo prouincia uel ciuitas hostibus prodita est.
[THE SAME, Book 6 of Epitomes of Law] Anyone by whose aid, counsel, or malicious intent a province or city is betrayed to the enemy can be accused of the crime of treason.

Notes

  1. §48.4.10.prcuius — The demonstrative pronoun is, which serves as the subject of the main verb accusari potest, is omitted as the antecedent of the relative pronoun cuius.
  2. §48.4.10.prope consilio dolo malo — Ablatives of means or cause. This is a traditional legal formula in Roman law indicating both objective complicity (aid and counsel) and subjective intent (malice).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.4.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.4.10.pr

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