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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.216.pr

Imprisonment versus Being Legally Bound in Chains

Passage 9030 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that a person who is merely shut up in prison is not legally deemed to be 'bound' or 'in chains' unless physical chains have actually been applied to their body.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad legem Aeliam Sentiam. ] §50.16.216.prUerum est eum, qui in carcere clusus est, non uideri neque 'uinctum' neque 'in uinculis' esse, nisi corpori eius uincula sint adhibita.
[ULPIANUS, in the first book on the Lex Aelia Sentia.] It is true that he who is shut up in prison is not deemed to be either 'bound' or 'in chains', unless chains have been applied to his body.

Notes

  1. §50.16.216.prUerum est eum ... non uideri — The impersonal expression `Uerum est` (it is true) takes the accusative-and-infinitive construction (A.C.I.) `eum ... non uideri` as its subject, where the pronoun `eum` (the antecedent of the relative clause `qui in carcere clusus est`) serves as the subject accusative of the infinitive `uideri`.
  2. §50.16.216.prnisi corpori eius uincula sint adhibita — A subordinate clause introduced by the exclusive conjunction `nisi` (unless) with the subjunctive perfect passive `sint adhibita`. It presents a conditional exception to the statement in the main infinitive clause `uideri`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.216.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.216.pr

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