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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.7.1.pr-48.7.1.2

Penalties for Private Violence and Plundering Shipwrecks

Passage 8232 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section outlines the legal penalties for those convicted of private violence, including property confiscation and disenfranchisement, and states that plundering shipwrecks is subject to the same severe or extraordinary punishments.

[MARCIANUS libro quarto decimo institutionum. ] §48.7.1.prDe ui priuata damnati pars tertia bonorum ex lege Iulia publicatur et cautum est, ne senator sit, ne decurio, aut ullum honorem capiat, neue in eum ordinem sedeat, neue iudex sit: et uidelicet omni honore quasi infamis ex senatus consulto carebit.
[MARCIANUS, Institutions, Book 14] One-third of the property of those condemned for private violence is confiscated under the Julian law, and it is provided that he shall not be a senator, nor a decurion, nor hold any office, nor sit in that order, nor be a judge; and of course, he will be deprived of every honor, as if infamous, by a decree of the senate.
§48.7.1.1Eadem poena adficiuntur, qui ad poenam legis Iuliae de ui priuata rediguntur, et si quis ex naufragio dolo malo quid rapuerit.
Those who are brought under the penalty of the Julian law on private violence, and if anyone has plundered anything from a shipwreck with malicious intent, are subject to the same penalty.
§48.7.1.2Sed et ex constitutionibus principum extra ordinem, qui de naufragiis aliquid diripuerint, puniuntur: nam et diuus Pius rescripsit nullam uim nautis fieri debere et, si quis fecerit, ut seuerissime puniatur.
But also, by imperial constitutions, those who have plundered anything from shipwrecks are punished extraordinarily; for the deified Pius also replied in a rescript that no violence ought to be done to sailors, and that if anyone should do so, he must be punished most severely.

Notes

  1. §48.7.1.prdamnati — The genitive singular masculine of the perfect passive participle damnatus, agreeing with an implied subject "of [one] condemned," functioning as a possessive genitive modifying pars tertia bonorum.
  2. §48.7.1.1et si quis ex naufragio dolo malo quid rapuerit — This conditional clause is coordinated by et with the preceding relative clause qui... rediguntur. The conditional clause functions substantively (equivalent to "and anyone who has plundered...") as part of the subject of the plural verb adficiuntur.
  3. §48.7.1.2ut seuerissime puniatur — Present subjunctive passive. It functions as a substantive clause of command or purpose depending on the main verb rescripsit ("he wrote in a rescript [ordering] that...").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.7.1.pr-48.7.1.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.7.1.pr-48.7.1.2

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