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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.190.pr

Definition of Provincials Based on Domicile

Passage 9004 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Defines 'provincials' as those who have their domicile in a province, rather than those who were merely born there.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo quarto ad edictum. ] §50.16.190.pr'Prouinciales' eos accipere debemus, qui in prouincia domicilium habent, non eos, qui ex prouincia oriundi sunt.
[ULPIANUS, in the thirty-fourth book on the Edict.] We ought to understand 'provincials' as those who have their domicile in a province, not those who originate from a province.

Notes

  1. 50.16.190.praccipere — The verb accipere is used here in the sense of "to understand, interpret, or take (in a certain meaning)," indicating that the accusative 'Prouinciales' (the word itself) is to be understood as referring to eos qui... (the persons who...).
  2. 50.16.190.proriundi sunt — A construction using the gerundive oriundus (derived from the verb orior, "to rise, originate"), meaning "to originate from." It legally distinguishes those who have an active residence (domicilium) in a province from those who merely have it as their place of origin by birth or descent.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.190.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.190.pr

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