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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.5.13.pr

Liability of Instigators and Perpetrators of Adultery

Passage 8187 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that the statutory words prohibiting the knowing and malicious commission of illicit intercourse or adultery apply both to the instigator and to the actual perpetrator.

[ULPIANUS libro primo de adulteriis. ] §48.5.13.prHaec uerba legis 'ne quis posthac stuprum adulterium facito sciens dolo malo' et ad eum, qui suasit, et ad eum, qui stuprum uel adulterium intulit, pertinent.
[ULPIANUS, in the first book On Adultery.] These words of the law, 'let no one hereafter commit illicit intercourse or adultery knowingly and with malicious intent,' apply both to him who persuaded, and to him who committed the illicit intercourse or adultery.

Notes

  1. §48.5.13.prfacito — The future imperative (third-person singular) of the verb facio. It is used here in its legal or statutory sense ('legal imperative') to declare a general prohibition.
  2. §48.5.13.prsciens dolo malo — sciens (present participle nominative singular) describes the state of the subject, functioning adverbially as 'knowingly.' dolo malo is an ablative of manner ('with malicious intent'), representing the subjective element (dolus malus) in Roman law.
  3. §48.5.13.printulit — The third-person singular perfect of infero ('to bring in, inflict'). Here it is used in the sense of 'committed' or 'perpetrated' illicit intercourse/adultery, in contrast with suasit ('persuaded/instigated'), pointing to the actual perpetrator.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.5.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.5.13.pr

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