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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.6.10.pr-48.6.10.2

Public Violence in Obstructing Authority and Group Assault

Passage 8229 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk outlines the provisions of the Lex Julia on public violence, prohibiting the obstruction of trials or official acts, extortion of promises, and carrying weapons in assemblies. It also covers non-lethal group violence and specifies the penalty of interdiction from water and fire for the condemned.

[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §48.6.10.prQui dolo malo fecerit, quo minus iudicia tuto exerceantur aut iudices ut oportet iudicent uel is, qui potestatem imperiumue habebit, quam ei ius erit, decernat imperet faciat: qui ludos pecuniamue ab aliquo inuito polliceri publice priuatimue per iniuriam exegerit: item qui cum telo dolo malo in contione fuerit aut ubi iudicium publice exercebitur. exceptus est, qui propter uenationem habeat homines, qui cum bestiis pugnent, ministrosque ad ea habere conceditur. H §48.6.10.1ac lege tenetur et qui conuocatis hominibus uim fecerit, quo quis uerberetur et pulsetur, neque homo occisus sit.
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, Book 68] Anyone who, with malicious intent, acts to prevent trials from being conducted safely, or judges from judging as they ought, or a person holding power or command from deciding, commanding, or acting to the extent of his legal right; anyone who, publicly or privately, through injustice, extorts a promise of games or money from someone against his will; likewise anyone who, with malicious intent, is present with a weapon in a public assembly or where a public trial is being conducted. (An exception is made for one who, for the sake of a hunt, has men to fight with wild beasts, and it is permitted to have assistants for these purposes.) He also is liable under this law who, having assembled men, commits violence whereby someone is beaten and struck, even though no one is killed.
§48.6.10.2Damnato de ui publica aqua et igni interdicitur.
Anyone condemned for public violence is interdicted from water and fire.

Notes

  1. §48.6.10.prfecerit, quo minus — The verb `facio` followed by a `quo minus` clause (with the subjunctive) expresses an action done to prevent something from happening ("acts to prevent...").
  2. §48.6.10.prquam ei ius erit — The relative pronoun `quam` agrees with the feminine noun `potestatem` or functions restrictively to mean "to the extent that he has the legal right." It is interpreted here as defining the scope of the actions `decernat imperet faciat`.
  3. §48.6.10.prpolliceri ... exegerit — The verb `exigo` (to extort/demand) takes the construction of demanding from someone (`ab aliquo`) that they do something (expressed by the infinitive `polliceri`). The deponent infinitive `polliceri` ("to promise") takes `ludos pecuniamue` as its objects.
  4. §48.6.10.1quo quis uerberetur et pulsetur, neque homo occisus sit — The conjunction `quo` introduces a clause of purpose or result (equivalent to `ut eo` with the subjunctive). The subsequent `neque` clause sets a limiting condition on the violence (`uim fecerit`), specifying "provided that no one is killed."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.6.10.pr-48.6.10.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.6.10.pr-48.6.10.2

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