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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.5.11.pr

Inadmissibility of Exemptions from Property-Bound Burdens

Passage 8726 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Hermogenianus explains that for public duties inherent in property itself, exemptions based on personal status or privileges are not allowed, citing examples such as road construction, providing transport, and quartering guests.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum. ] §50.5.11.prSunt munera, quae rei proprie cohaerent, de quibus neque liberi neque aetas nec merita militiae nec ullum aliud priuilegium iure tribuit excusationem: ut sit praediorum collatio uiae sternendae, angariorumue exhibitio, hospitis suscipiendi munus (nam nec huius quisquam excusationem praeter eos, quibus principali beneficio concessum est, habet) et si qua sunt praeterea alia huiusmodi.
[HERMOGENIANUS, in the first book of the Epitome of Law.] There are certain duties which are inherent in property itself, from which neither children, nor age, nor military merit, nor any other privilege grants an exemption by law; such as the contribution of estates for paving roads, or the provision of transport animals, or the duty of quartering guests (for no one has an exemption from this latter duty except those to whom it has been granted by imperial favor), and any other obligations of this kind.

Notes

  1. 50.5.11.prtribuit — Although the subjects liberi (plural), aetas (singular), merita (plural), and priuilegium (singular) are connected, the verb tribuit is singular because it agrees with the nearest and final subject, ullum aliud priuilegium.
  2. 50.5.11.pruiae sternendae — A gerundive construction. Together with praediorum (of estates), it functions as a genitive modifying collatio (contribution/levy), meaning 'for paving the road' (literally, 'of the road to be paved').
  3. 50.5.11.prhuius — The genitive pronoun huius refers back to the immediately preceding duty, hospitis suscipiendi munus (the duty of quartering guests), modifying excusationem ('exemption from this').

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