Capital Punishment for Malicious Arson of an Apartment

Notes

1. §48.8.10.prinsulam — While originally meaning 'island', here it refers to an urban apartment building (insula) in ancient Rome.
2. §48.8.10.prexusserit — Third-person singular future perfect active indicative of the verb exuro (to burn down). In the conditional clause (si-clause), it expresses an action that will have been completed prior to the future action of the apodosis (plectetur).
3. §48.8.10.prcapitis poena — An ablative phrase acting as the 'ablative of punishment' with the passive verb plectetur (will be punished), indicating the penalty imposed (capital punishment).
4. §48.8.10.prquasi — An adverb meaning 'as if' or 'as'. Here it indicates a legal fiction where a person who burns down an apartment building is treated on par with a general public arsonist (incendiarius) and subjected to the same legal consequence (capital punishment).