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Adler number: gamma,439
Translated headword: public-suit, graphe
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Translation: A prosecution concerning public misdeeds, and concerning other crimes.[1] Public-suits are also brought over laws and decrees that are thought to have been introduced improperly; these are called 'public-suits for illegalities' [γραφαὶ παρανόμων ].[2]
Greek Original:Γραφή: ἡ περὶ τῶν δημοσίων ἀδικημάτων κατηγορία, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁμαρτημάτων. γίνονται δὲ γραφαὶ καὶ νόμων καὶ ψηφισμάτων οὐκ ἐπιτηδείων εἰσκομίζεσθαι δοκούντων, αἵτινες γραφαὶ παρανόμων καλοῦνται.
Notes:
[1] (The Greek has 'the' other.) See also
gamma 440,
gamma 445; and for the parallel entry about "private" prosecutions,
delta 1089.
[2] See generally M.H.Hansen,
The Sovereignty of the People's Court in Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974). Strictly speaking, the
γραφὴ παρανόμον could only be brought against decrees; against allegedly improper laws the resort was the (much rarer)
γραφὴ νόμον μὴ ἐπιτήδειον θεϊναι ('public-suit [sc. charging] that a law had not been suitably framed').
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 July 2003@05:11:16.
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