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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.10.3.pr-50.10.3.2

Authorization for New Works and Restrictions on Inscriptions

Passage 8776 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment explains that private individuals are generally allowed to construct new works without imperial authorization unless certain exceptions apply, whereas public funds require such authorization, and restricts whose names can be inscribed on public works.

[MACER libro secundo de officio praesidis. ] §50.10.3.prOpus nouum priuato etiam sine principis auctoritate facere licet, praeterquam si ad aemulationem alterius ciuitatis pertineat uel materiam seditionis praebeat uel circum theatrum uel amphitheatrum sit.
[MACER in the second book on the Office of the Governor.] A private individual is allowed to construct a new work even without the authorization of the Emperor, except if it relates to rivalry with another city, or provides material for sedition, or is located around a theater or amphitheater.
§50.10.3.1Publico uero sumptu opus nouum sine principis auctoritate fieri non licere constitutionibus declaratur.
However, it is declared by the imperial constitutions that a new work is not allowed to be constructed at public expense without the authorization of the Emperor.
§50.10.3.2Inscribi autem nomen operi publico alterius quam principis aut eius, cuius pecunia id opus factum sit, non licet.
Moreover, it is not allowed to inscribe on a public work the name of anyone other than the Emperor, or the person at whose expense the work was constructed.

Notes

  1. §50.10.3.prpriuato — Dative used with the impersonal verb licet, representing the logical subject of the infinitive facere.
  2. §50.10.3.1constitutionibus — Ablative plural, expressing the means ('by constitutions') or the location ('in the constitutions') for the passive verb declaratur.
  3. §50.10.3.2alterius — Genitive singular modifying the noun nomen. It functions with the conjunction quam ('other than') to introduce the excluded entities (principis and eius).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.10.3.pr-50.10.3.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.10.3.pr-50.10.3.2

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