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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.8.2.pr

Prohibition of Private Killing of Sons by Fathers

Passage 8241 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It prohibits a father from killing his son on his own authority without a hearing, establishing that he must instead accuse him before the appropriate magistrate.

[ULPIANUS libro primo de adulteris. ] §48.8.2.prInauditum filium pater occidere non potest, sed accusare eum apud praefectum praesidemue prouinciae debet.
[ULPIANUS, On Adulterers, Book 1] A father cannot kill a son without his being heard, but he must accuse him before the prefect or the governor of the province.

Notes

  1. §48.8.2.prinauditum — An adjective meaning "unheard" or "without a hearing," referring to a state where the accused has not been given an opportunity to defend himself in a legal proceeding. It modifies filium in the accusative.
  2. §48.8.2.prpraefectum praesidemue — Two nouns in the accusative connected by the enclitic conjunction -ue ("or"). praefectum refers to a prefect (such as the urban prefect, praefectus urbi), and praesidem refers to the governor of a province (praeses provinciae).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.8.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.8.2.pr

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