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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.14.37.pr

Inability of Municipal Curator to Remit Debts

Passage 403 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A rescript of the Emperors Antoninus and Verus ruling that a curator of a municipality cannot grant a debtor release or extension of payment, and that even if such remissions were made to the Philippians, they must be revoked.

[PAPIRIUS IUSTUS libro secundo de constitutionibus. ] §2.14.37.prImperatores Antoninus et Uerus rescripserunt debitori rei publicae a curatore permitti pecunias non posse et, cum Philippensibus remissae essent, reuocandas.
[PAPIRIUS IUSTUS, Constitutions, book 2] The Emperors Antoninus and Verus wrote in a rescript that money cannot be released to a debtor of a municipality by a curator, and, although it had been remitted to the Philippians, it must be recalled.

Notes

  1. §2.14.37.prpermitti pecunias — Consisting of the passive infinitive `permitti` of `permittere` and its subject accusative `pecunias`. In this context, it refers to a curator unilaterally granting an extension of payment or remitting a debt to a debtor of the municipality.
  2. §2.14.37.prreuocandas — A gerundive (future passive participle) in the accusative plural feminine, agreeing with the subject accusative `pecunias`. With `esse` understood, it forms the second part of the accusative-with-infinitive construction dependent on `rescripserunt`, meaning "they (the moneys) must be recalled".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.14.37.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.14.37.pr

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