[IDEM libro primo opinionum. ] §1.18.6.prIllicitas exactiones et uiolentia factas, et extortas metu uenditiones et cautiones uel sine pretii numeratione prohibeat praeses prouinciae.
The governor of a province should prohibit unlawful exactions and those made by violence, and sales and guarantees extorted through fear or without the payment of the price.
item ne quis iniquum lucrum aut damnum sentiat, praeses prouinciae prouideat.
Likewise, the governor of a province should see to it that no one suffers unjust gain or loss.
§1.18.6.1Ueritas rerum erroribus gestarum non uitiatur: et ideo praeses prouinciae id sequatur quod conuenit eum ex fide eorum quae probabuntur.
The truth of matters is not vitiated by errors in what has been done; and therefore the governor of a province should follow what is fitting for him in accordance with the good faith of the things that will be proved.
§1.18.6.2Ne potentiores uiri humiliores iniuriis adficiant neue defensores eorum calumniosis criminibus insectentur innocentes, ad religionem praesidis prouinciae pertinet.
It belongs to the conscientious duty of the governor of a province to ensure that more powerful men do not inflict injuries on those of lower station, and that their defenders do not harrass innocent persons with malicious accusations.
§1.18.6.3Illicita ministeria sub praetextu adiuuantium militares uiros ad concutiendos homines procedentia prohibere et depraehensa coercere praeses prouinciae curet, et sub specie tributorum illicitas exactiones fieri prohibeat.
The governor of a province should take care to prohibit unlawful services proceeding under the pretext of assisting military men to extort people, and to punish them when detected; and he should prohibit unlawful exactions from being made under the guise of taxes.
§1.18.6.4Neque licita negotiatione aliquos prohiberi neque prohibita exerceri neque innocentibus poenas irrogari ad sollicitudinem suam praeses prouinciae reuocet.
The governor of a province should direct his attention, as part of his concern, to ensuring that no one is prohibited from lawful trade, nor prohibited trade is practiced, nor penalties are imposed on the innocent.
§1.18.6.5Ne tenuis uitae homines sub praetextu aduentus officiorum uel militum, lumine unico uel breui suppellectili ad aliorum usus translatis, iniuriis uexentur, praeses prouinciae prouidebit.
The governor of a province will see to it that men of slender means are not harassed by injuries under the pretext of the arrival of officials or soldiers, by having their only light or scanty furniture transferred to the use of others.
§1.18.6.6Ne quid sub nomine militum, quod ad utilitates eorum in commune non pertinet, a quibusdam propria sibi commoda inique uindicantibus committatur, praeses prouinciae prouideat.
The governor of a province should see to it that nothing is committed under the name of soldiers, which does not pertain to their common utility, by certain persons unjustly claiming private advantages for themselves.
§1.18.6.7Sicuti medico imputari euentus mortalitatis non debet, ita quod per imperitiam commisit, imputari ei debet: praetextu humanae fragilitatis delictum decipientis in periculo homines innoxium esse non debet.
Just as the outcome of mortality ought not to be imputed to a physician, so what he has committed through lack of skill ought to be imputed to him; the fault of one who deceives people in danger ought not to be unpunished under the pretext of human frailty.
§1.18.6.8Qui uniuersas prouincias regunt, ius gladii habent et in metallum dandi potestas eis permissa est.
Those who rule entire provinces have the right of the sword, and the power of sentencing to the mines is granted to them.
§1.18.6.9Praeses prouinciae si multam quam irrogauit ex praesentibus facultatibus eorum, quibus eam dixit, redigi non posse deprehenderit: necessitate solutionis moderetur repraehensa exactorum illicita auaritia.
If the governor of a province finds that the fine which he has imposed cannot be collected from the present resources of those on whom he pronounced it, he should moderate the necessity of payment, after curbing the unlawful greed of the collectors.
remissa propter inopiam multa a prouincias regentibus exigi non debet.
A fine remitted on account of poverty (by those who rule provinces) ought not to be exacted.