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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.1.26.pr

Right of Exemption for Grain Measurers

Passage 3967 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus shows that grain measurers have the right of excuse, as is evident from a rescript of the emperors Marcus and Commodus addressed to the prefect of the grain supply.

[PAULUS libro singulari de excusationibus. ] §27.1.26.prMensores frumentarios habere ius excusationis apparet ex rescripto diuorum Marci et Commodi, quod rescripserunt praefecto annonae.
[PAULUS, from the single book on excuses.] That grain measurers have the right of excuse is apparent from a rescript of the deified Marcus and Commodus, which they wrote in reply to the prefect of the grain supply.

Notes

  1. §27.1.26.prMensores frumentarios habere — This is an accusative with infinitive (ACI) clause serving as the subject of the impersonal verb apparet, where mensores frumentarios is the subject accusative of the infinitive habere.
  2. §27.1.26.prquod — A relative pronoun in the neuter accusative singular, referring back to the ablative antecedent rescripto. Within the relative clause, it functions as the direct object of the transitive verb rescripserunt.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.1.26.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.1.26.pr

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