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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.6.11.pr-48.6.11.2

Capital Punishment for House Attacks, Weapons, and Self-Defense

Passage 8230 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A statement by Paul on the capital punishment for those who plunder or attack houses, the legal definition of "weapons," and the legality of carrying them for self-defense.

[PAULUS libro quinto sententiarum. ] §48.6.11.pri, qui aedes alienas aut uillas expilauerint effregerint expugnauerint, si quid in turba cum telis fecerint, capite puniuntur.
[PAUL, Opinions, Book 5] Those who have plundered, broken into, or taken by storm another's houses or country estates, if they have done anything in a crowd with weapons, are punished capitally.
§48.6.11.1Telorum autem appellatione omnia, ex quibus singuli homines nocere possunt, accipiuntur.
Moreover, under the designation of "weapons," all things by means of which individual men can do harm are understood.
§48.6.11.2Qui telum tutandae salutis suae causa gerunt, non uidentur hominis occidendi causa portare.
Those who carry a weapon for the sake of protecting their own safety are not deemed to carry it for the purpose of killing a human being.

Notes

  1. §48.6.11.pri — The masculine plural nominative of the demonstrative pronoun is (more commonly written as ii or ei), serving as the antecedent of the relative clause qui ... expugnauerint and the subject of the main verb puniuntur.
  2. §48.6.11.1ex quibus — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quibus is the neuter plural omnia. Combined with the preposition ex ('by means of', 'with'), it indicates the instrument or means by which harm is inflicted.
  3. §48.6.11.2tutandae salutis suae causa — The gerundive tutandae agrees in gender, number, and case with salutis suae, which, together with the noun causa ('for the sake of', governing the genitive), forms a gerundive construction expressing purpose. The subsequent phrase hominis occidendi causa shares the same structure.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.6.11.pr-48.6.11.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.6.11.pr-48.6.11.2

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