- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
Macer explains the senatorial decree stating that lawsuits concerning contracts made by provincial governors or their staff before arrival are restricted during their term and restored after their departure, while limited judicial relief is granted for involuntary injuries like theft.
[MACER libro primo de officio praesidis.]
[MACER, in the first book on the Office of the Governor.]
Senatus consulto cauetur, ut de his, quae prouincias regentes, comites aut libertini eorum, antequam in prouinciam uenerint, contraxerunt,1 parcissime ius dicatur, ita ut actiones, quae ob eam causam institutae non essent, posteaquam quis eorum ea prouincia excesserit, restituerentur.2 si quid tamen inuito accidit, ueluti si iniuriam aut furtum passus est, hactenus ei ius dicendum est, ut3 litem contestetur resque ablata exhibeatur et deponatur aut sisti exhiberiue satisdato4 promittatur.
It is provided by a decree of the Senate that concerning those contracts which those governing provinces, their companions, or their freedmen have entered into before they came into the province, justice should be administered very sparingly, so that the actions which had not been instituted for that cause should be restored after any of them has departed from that province. If, however, anything happens against their will, for instance, if one has suffered an injury or a theft, justice must be administered for him only to this extent, that the issue may be joined, and the thing taken away may be produced and deposited, or it may be promised under security that it will be produced or exhibited.
- 1.18.16.prquae ... contraxerunt
'quae' is the direct object (neuter plural accusative) of 'contraxerunt' (to contract, incur a debt), modifying the antecedent 'his' (neuter plural ablative).
- 1.18.16.prita ut ... restituerentur
The clause 'ita ut' with the subjunctive 'restituerentur' expresses a result or a restrictive effect, indicating that the actions restricted during tenure are to be restored after their departure.
- 1.18.16.prhactenus ... ut
The correlative expression 'hactenus... ut' (only to the extent that...) strictly limits the scope of 'ius dicendum est' (justice must be administered) to the actions detailed in the subsequent subjunctive verbs ('contestetur', 'exhibeatur', 'deponatur', 'promittatur').
- 1.18.16.prsatisdato
This is an ablative absolute (or an adverbial expression) of the perfect participle of 'satisdare' (to give security, provide a guarantee), meaning 'security having been given' or 'under security.'