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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.37.pr

Restriction of Treasury Privilege on Fines against Creditors

Passage 8558 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The rule that the treasury cannot demand a penalty until creditors recover their claims means only that the treasury's privilege is restricted, not that it loses its ordinary private law rights.

[IDEM libro decimo responsorum. ] §49.14.37.prQuod placuit fisco non esse poenam petendam, nisi creditores suum reciperauerint, eo pertinet, ut priuilegium in poena contra creditores non exerceatur, non ut ius commune priuatorum fiscus amittat.
[THE SAME, Opinions, Book X.] The rule that the treasury should not demand a penalty unless the creditors have recovered what is theirs means that the privilege in regard to the penalty is not exercised against the creditors, not that the treasury loses the common law of private persons.

Notes

  1. §49.14.37.prQuod placuit — The quod-clause functions as a noun clause specifying the fact which "points to" (eo pertinet) the following ut-clauses.
  2. §49.14.37.prfisco non esse poenam petendam — A gerundive construction of obligation (petendam esse) with the dative of agent (fisco). Although poenam is accusative (which might be a scribal variant for the nominative poena, or an impersonal gerundive construction retaining the accusative object), the meaning is 'the penalty must not be demanded by the treasury'.
  3. §49.14.37.preo pertinet, ut — The phrase 'eo pertinet, ut...' means 'points to this, namely that...', where the adverb 'eo' anticipates the noun clauses introduced by 'ut' and 'non ut'.

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