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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.17.3.pr

Twenty-Year Prescription for Disputes Involving the Fiscus

Passage 8356 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is stated as a general principle established by the deified emperors that any dispute before the fiscus is barred by a twenty-year prescription, unless a specific prescription applies.

[MARCIANUS libro secundo de publicis iudiciis. ] §48.17.3.prquamcumque enim quaestionem apud fiscum, si non alia sit propria praescriptio, uiginti annorum silentio praescribi diui principes uoluerunt.
[Marcianus, Public Prosecutions, Book 2.] For the deified emperors willed that any question before the fiscus, if there be no other special prescription, be barred by the silence of twenty years.

Notes

  1. §48.17.3.prquamcumque ... quaestionem ... praescribi — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of the main verb uoluerunt. The accusative noun phrase quamcumque quaestionem, introduced by the relative pronoun, functions as the subject of the passive infinitive praescribi.
  2. §48.17.3.prsilentio — Aptly translated as 'silence', this ablative of means/cause is used metaphorically to denote the inactivity, inaction, or failure to prosecute a claim on the part of the entitled party.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.17.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.17.3.pr

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