Nihil innovari appellatione interposita
(No Change Shall be Made After the Appeal Has Been Interposed.)
1 Ulpianus libro quarto de appellationibus. Appellatione interposita, sive ea recepta sit sive non, medio tempore nihil novari oportet: si quidem fuerit recepta appellatio, quia recepta est: si vero non est recepta, ne praeiudicium fiat, quoad deliberetur, utrum recipienda sit appellatio an non sit. 1Recepta autem appellatione tamdiu nihil erit innovandum, quamdiu de appellatione fuerit pronuntiatum. 2Si quis ergo forte relegatus fuit et appellaverit, non arcebitur neque in Italia neque in provincia, qua relegatus est. 3Propter eandem rationem et si quis deportatus fuit ab eo, cui deportandi ius est, vel adnotatus, neque vincula patietur neque ullam aliam iniuriam, quam patitur, qui sententiae non adquieverat: integer enim status esse videtur provocatione interposita. 4Ergo et si abstinere ordine iussus sit et provocaverit, eadem ratione potest coetum participare, cum hoc sit constitutum et sit iuris, ne quid pendente appellatione novetur. 5Si quis ex pluribus facinoribus condemnatus propter quaedam appellavit, propter quaedam non: utrum differenda poena eius sit an non, quaeritur. et si quidem graviora sint crimina, ob quae appellatio interposita est, levius autem id, propter quod non appellavit, recipienda est omnimodo appellatio et differenda poena: si vero graviorem sententiam meruit ex ea specie, ex qua non est appellatum, omnimodo poena inponenda est.
1 Ulpianus, On Appeals, Book IV. After an appeal has been interposed, whether it is received or not, nothing must be altered in the meantime, if the appeal is received, for this reason; but if it is not received, in order that nothing may be prejudiced while it is being decided, whether the appeal should be received or not. 1If the appeal is received, no change shall be made until a decision has been rendered with reference to the appeal. 2If anyone should happen to be relegated, and takes an appeal, he will not be restricted to Italy, nor to any single province to which he may have been relegated. 3For the same reason, if anyone has been deported, or notified by a magistrate who has a right to deport him, he shall not be put in chains, nor shall he be subjected to any of the severe treatment which those are liable who do not acquiesce in a decision; for his condition is considered to remain unimpaired after the appeal has been interposed. 4Therefore, if he has been ordered to withdraw from his order, and he appeals, for the same reason he can attend its meetings; as it has been decided, and is a rule of law, that no further steps can be taken while an appeal is pending. 5When anyone is convicted of several crimes, and has appealed on account of some of them, but not on account of others, the question arises whether his punishment should be postponed, or not. If the appeal was taken on account of the more serious crimes, but he did not appeal for those which were less serious, the appeal should by all means be received, and the punishment deferred. Where, however, he deserves a heavier sentence for offences on account of which he did not appeal, the penalty must certainly be imposed.