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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.70.pr

Prohibition of Transferring Criminal Jurisdiction or Coercion

Passage 9130 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states the principle of non-transferability of jurisdiction, asserting that no one can transfer to another the power of the sword or any other power of coercion conferred upon them.

[ULPIANUS libro primo de officio proconsulis. ] §50.17.70.prNemo potest gladii potestatem sibi datam uel cuius alterius coercitionis ad alium transferre.
[ULPIANUS, on the Office of Proconsul, Book I.] No one can transfer to another the power of the sword, or of any other coercion, which has been conferred upon himself.

Notes

  1. §50.17.70.prgladii potestatem — Literally "the power of the sword," a technical term in Roman public law referring to the supreme criminal jurisdiction (the power to impose the death penalty, or merum imperium).
  2. §50.17.70.prcuius alterius coercitionis — A genitive noun phrase coordinated with gladii and modifying potestatem. cuius is the feminine genitive singular of the indefinite adjective quis, modifying coercitionis together with alterius.

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