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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.1.10.pr

Denial of Treasury Privileges to Cities over Debtor Property

Passage 8653 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that no city enjoys a privilege similar to that of the treasury over a debtor's assets unless it has been specifically granted by the emperor.

[MARCIANUS libro singulari de delatoribus. ] §50.1.10.prSimile priuilegium fisco nulla ciuitas habet in bonis debitoris, nisi nominatim id a principe datum sit.
[MARCIANUS, Single Book on Denouncers] No city has a privilege similar to that of the treasury over the property of a debtor, unless that has been specifically granted by the emperor.

Notes

  1. §50.1.10.prsimile priuilegium fisco — The dative "fisco" depends on the adjective "simile", meaning "a privilege similar to [that of] the treasury" (dative with adjectives of likeness). It employs a compendiary comparison, where the privilege itself is implied.
  2. §50.1.10.prin bonis debitoris — The prepositional phrase "in bonis" means "with respect to the property [of the debtor]" and indicates the scope within which the privilege applies. In Roman legal terminology, the plural "bona" (here in the ablative "bonis") refers to assets or estate.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.1.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.1.10.pr

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