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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.19.43.pr-48.19.43.1

Limits of Professional Bans and Decurion Privileges

Passage 8424 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A rescript of Emperor Antoninus establishing that a governor cannot forbid a profession beyond his term, and a response by Paulus stating that one who lost the rank of decurion cannot claim a son's privileges to avoid punishment.

[PAULUS libro primo responsorum. ] §48.19.43.prImperator Antoninus Aurelio Atiliano rescripsit: 'Praeses ultra administrationis suae tempus interdicere alicui arte sua uti non potest'. §48.19.43.1Idem respondit eum, qui suo admisso decurionum honorem amisit, non posse in poenis euitandis decurionis filii honorem uindicare.
[PAULUS, from the First Book of Responses.] Emperor Antoninus wrote in a rescript to Aurelius Atilianus: 'A governor cannot forbid anyone to practice his profession beyond the term of his own administration.' The same jurist replied that a person who, by his own offense, has lost the rank of decurion, cannot claim the privilege of a son of a decurion in escaping penalties.

Notes

  1. §48.19.43.printerdicere alicui arte sua uti — The verb interdicere takes a dative indirect object (alicui) and an infinitive (uti), meaning 'to forbid someone to do something.' The infinitive uti governs the ablative (arte sua).
  2. §48.19.43.1in poenis euitandis — A gerundive construction consisting of the preposition in and the noun poenis (feminine plural ablative) with the agreeing gerundive euitandis, meaning 'in avoiding penalties.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.19.43.pr-48.19.43.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.19.43.pr-48.19.43.1

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