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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.1.23.pr-50.1.23.1

Senatorial Exemptions and Soldier's Domicile

Passage 8666 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk explains that a person obtaining senatorial dignity is exempt from municipal duties but retains municipal origin for honors, determining the origin of his freedmen, and that a soldier's domicile is where he serves if he owns no property in his native country.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum. ] §50.1.23.prMuniceps esse desinit senatoriam adeptus dignitatem, quantum ad munera: quantum uero ad honorem, retinere creditur originem.
[HERMOGENIANUS, Epitomes of Law, Book I] A person who has obtained senatorial dignity ceases to be a citizen of a municipality, so far as public duties are concerned; but so far as honor is concerned, he is believed to retain his origin.
denique manumissi ab eo eius municipii efficiuntur municipes, unde originem trahit.
Consequently, those who are manumitted by him become citizens of that municipality from which he derives his origin.
§50.1.23.1Miles ibi domicilium habere uidetur, ubi meret, si nihil in patria possideat.
A soldier is deemed to have his domicile where he serves, if he possesses nothing in his native country.

Notes

  1. §50.1.23.pradeptus — adeptus is the perfect participle of the deponent verb adipiscor (to obtain), with active meaning, agreeing with the subject of the main verb desinit.
  2. §50.1.23.prcreditur — creditur is used in a personal construction ('he is believed to...') with the infinitive retinere, where the subject is the person who obtained the senatorial dignity.
  3. §50.1.23.1meret — meret (from mereo or mereor) is used in the specific military sense of 'to serve as a soldier' (literally, to earn pay).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.1.23.pr-50.1.23.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.1.23.pr-50.1.23.1

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