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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.49.pr-19.2.49.1

Prohibition on Guardians Leasing Imperial or Treasury Lands

Passage 2870 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Rules prohibiting tutors or curators from leasing imperial or treasury lands before settling their accounts or during their administration.

[MODESTINUS libro sexto excusationum. ] §19.2.49.prΟἱ ἐπίτροποι γενόμενοι ἢ κουράτορες πρὶν ἐκτίσαι τὰ τῆς κηδεμονίας μισθωταὶ Καίσαρος γενέσθαι κωλύονται·
[MODESTINUS, from the sixth book on Excuses.] Those who have become tutors or curators are forbidden to become tenants of the Emperor before they have settled their accounts of guardianship.
κἂν τις ἀποκρυψάμενος τοῦτο προσέλθῃ τῇ μισθώσει τῶν τοῦ Καίσαρος χωρίων, ὡς παραποιήσας κολάζεται· τοῦτο ἐκέ- λευσεν ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ Σεβῆρος.
And if anyone, having concealed this, applies for the lease of the Emperor's estates, he is punished as one who has committed fraud; the Emperor Severus so ordered.
§19.2.49.1Κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ καὶ οἱ χειρίζοντες ἐπιτροπὰς ἢ κουρατορίας εἰσὶν κεκωλυμένοι μισθοῦσθαι καὶ παρὰ τοῦ ταμιείου χωρία.
In like manner, those also who are managing guardianships or curatorships are forbidden to lease estates even from the treasury.

Notes

  1. §19.2.49.prπρὶν ἐκτίσαι τὰ τῆς κηδεμονίας — The conjunction πρίν is used with the infinitive (the aorist ἐκτίσαι) to mean "before doing something." The phrase τὰ τῆς κηδεμονίας refers to affairs of guardianship, specifically the settlement of accounts or outstanding debts from the administration.
  2. §19.2.49.prὡς παραποιήσας — The participle (aorist active of παραποιέω) with the particle ὡς indicates the character or capacity under which the agent is treated ("as one who has committed falsum/fraud"). Here παραποιέω corresponds to the Latin crimendum falsi, meaning that concealing eligibility to contract is punished as forgery.
  3. §19.2.49.1καὶ παρὰ τοῦ ταμιείου — The preposition παρά governs the genitive to mean "from." The term ταμιεῖον refers to the imperial treasury (fiscus), emphasizing that in addition to the Emperor's private estates mentioned in the previous section, leasing public lands managed by the treasury is also forbidden.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.49.pr-19.2.49.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.49.pr-19.2.49.1

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