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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.15.4.pr

Nerva's Prohibition and Preliminary Questions of Status

Passage 6624 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the prohibition by Emperor Nerva of inquiries into status five years after death, and the decision of Emperor Claudius to suspend a pecuniary inquiry if it prejudices status.

[CALLISTRATUS libro primo de iure fisci. ] §40.15.4.prPrimus omnium diuus Nerua edicto uetuit post quinquennium mortis cuiusque de statu quaeri.
[CALLISTRATUS, in the First Book on the Right of the Treasury.] Divus Nerva was the first of all to forbid by an edict that inquiry be made into anyone's status after five years from their death.
sed et diuus Claudius Claudiano rescripsit, si per quaestionem nummariam praeiudicium statui uidebitur fieri, cessare quaestionem.
But Divus Claudius also wrote back to Claudianus that if it should appear that a prejudice is created against status by a pecuniary inquiry, the inquiry must cease.

Notes

  1. §40.15.4.prde statu quaeri — The impersonal passive infinitive of quaerere. It functions as the object of uetuit, meaning "that inquiry be made into status."
  2. §40.15.4.prstatui — Dative singular of the fourth-declension noun status. It indicates the object of prejudice ('against status') in the phrase praeiudicium fieri.
  3. §40.15.4.pruidebitur — Third-person singular future indicative of uideor. In the conditional clause (si-clause) within the indirect speech introduced by rescripsit, the indicative is retained instead of the expected subjunctive, reflecting either the preservation of the original wording of the rescript or a highly probable assumption.

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