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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.18.15.pr

Prohibition on Provincial Governors Leaving Their Province

Passage 217 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that a provincial governor must not leave his province except to fulfill a vow, and even then, he is not permitted to stay overnight outside his province.

[MARCIANUS libro primo de iudiciis publicis. ] §1.18.15.prIllud obseruandum est, ne qui prouinciam regit fines eius excedat nisi uoti soluendi causa, dum tamen abnoctare ei non liceat.
[MARCIANUS, in the first book on Public Judgments.] The following must be observed, that he who governs a province must not exceed its boundaries, except for the purpose of fulfilling a vow, provided however that he is not permitted to stay out overnight.

Notes

  1. 1.18.15.pruoti soluendi causa — A gerundive construction expressing purpose, where the genitive gerundive soluendi agrees with the genitive noun uoti, both being governed by the postpositional ablative causa.
  2. 1.18.15.prdum tamen abnoctare ei non liceat — The conjunction dum introduces a proviso clause ("provided that"), which requires the subjunctive mood (liceat). The infinitive abnoctare here specifically means to spend the night outside the province.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.18.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.15.pr

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