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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.13.2.pr

Liability for Retaining Residual Public Money under the Lex Julia

Passage 8313 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains the provision under the Lex Julia on residual funds, according to which anyone who retains public money allocated for a specific use instead of spending it on that purpose is held liable.

[PAULUS libro undecimo ad Sabinum. ] §48.13.2.prLege Iulia de residuis tenetur, qui publicam pecuniam delegatam in usum aliquem retinuit neque in eum consumpsit.
[PAULUS on Sabinus, Book XI] Under the Lex Julia on residual funds, anyone is held liable who has retained public money allocated for a specific use and has not spent it for that purpose.

Notes

  1. §48.13.2.prdelegatam in usum aliquem — The perfect passive participle delegatam (from delegare, 'to allocate', feminine accusative singular) modifies publicam pecuniam, with the prepositional phrase in usum aliquem ('for a specific use') depending on it. Thus, it translates to 'public money allocated for a specific use'.
  2. §48.13.2.prin eum — The pronoun eum (accusative masculine singular) refers back to the masculine noun usum ('use', 'purpose'). The preposition in with the accusative here expresses purpose or allocation: 'for that purpose'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.13.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.13.2.pr

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