[PAULUS libro secundo ad Sabinum. ] §49.15.17.prPostliminio carent, qui armis uicti hostibus se dederunt.
[PAULUS, Book 2 on Sabinus] Those who, conquered by arms, have surrendered themselves to the enemy lack the right of postliminium.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.15.17.pr
Exclusion of Surrendered Persons from Postliminium
Summary
It states that those who surrender to the enemy after being conquered by force of arms are excluded from the right of postliminium.
Notes
- §49.15.17.prpostliminio — An ablative of lack/deprivation governed by the verb carent (carere, "to lack, be without").
- §49.15.17.pruicti — Perfect passive participle of uincere ("to conquer") in the masculine plural nominative, modifying the relative pronoun qui and expressing the prior state or cause ("having been conquered by arms").
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