[MACER libro primo de officio praesidis. ] §1.18.16.prSenatus consulto cauetur, ut de his, quae prouincias regentes, comites aut libertini eorum, antequam in prouinciam uenerint, contraxerunt, parcissime ius dicatur, ita ut actiones, quae ob eam causam institutae non essent, posteaquam quis eorum ea prouincia excesserit, restituerentur.
[MACER, in the first book on the Office of the Governor.] 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.
si quid tamen inuito accidit, ueluti si iniuriam aut furtum passus est, hactenus ei ius dicendum est, ut litem contestetur resque ablata exhibeatur et deponatur aut sisti exhiberiue satisdato promittatur.
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.