Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.15.13.pr

Prohibition of Compromise by Imperial Procurators

Passage 442 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It regulates that none of the Emperor's procurators are allowed to enter into a compromise without first consulting the Emperor.

[AEMILIUS MACER libro primo ad legem uicensimam hereditatium. ] §2.15.13.prNulli procuratorum principis inconsulto principe transigere licet.

[AEMILIUS MACER in the first book on the Twentieth-Tax on Inheritances.] None of the procurators of the Emperor is allowed to make a compromise without consulting the Emperor.

Notes

§2.15.13.princonsulto principe — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the adjective inconsultus ('unconsulted') and the noun princeps ('emperor'), functioning as a circumstantial or conditional clause ('without consulting the emperor') that modifies the infinitive transigere ('to compromise').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.15.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.15.13.pr

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