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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.15.3.pr-50.15.3.1

Age Declaration in the Census and Immunity for Things

Passage 8809 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the necessity of declaring age in the census (exemplified by the poll-tax in Syria) and the principle that tax immunity granted to things, unlike personal immunity, does not expire.

[IDEM libro secundo de censibus. ] §50.15.3.prAetatem in censendo significare necesse est, quia quibusdam aetas tribuit, ne tributo onerentur: ueluti in Syriis a quattuordecim annis masculi, a duodecim feminae usque ad sexagensimum quintum annum tributo capitis obligantur.
[THE SAME, in the second book on the Census.] It is necessary to state age in the census, because to some people age grants that they are not burdened with tribute: as, for example, in Syria males from fourteen years of age, and females from twelve, up to their sixty-fifth year, are liable to a poll-tax.
aetas autem spectatur censendi tempore.
Age, however, is considered at the time of the census.
§50.15.3.1Rebus concessam immunitatem non habere intercidere rescripto imperatoris nostri ad Pelignianum recte expressum est: quippe personis quidem data immunitas cum persona extinguitur, rebus numquam extinguitur.
That immunity granted to things does not cease to exist is correctly expressed in a rescript of our Emperor to Pelignianus; for immunity granted to persons indeed dies with the person, but that granted to things is never extinguished.

Notes

  1. §50.15.3.prtribuit, ne tributo onerentur — The verb tribuere (to grant, bring about) takes the ne-clause to express the purpose or result of 'granting that they are not burdened'. The indirect object is the preceding quibusdam (dative).
  2. §50.15.3.1non habere intercidere — The construction habere + infinitive (intercidere) in Late and Juristic Latin expresses capability, necessity, or an inherent characteristic ('does not cease' / 'cannot perish'). The entire phrase forms an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction with immunitatem as its subject, serving as the subject of recte expressum est.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.15.3.pr-50.15.3.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.15.3.pr-50.15.3.1

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