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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.7.14.pr

Denial of the Two-Year Exemption for Voluntary Substitutes

Passage 8750 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian states that a person who voluntarily serves as a substitute for another's public duty is not granted the two-year exemption and must undertake an embassy when their own turn comes.

[PAPINIANUS libro primo responsorum. ] §50.7.14.prUicarius alieni muneris uoluntate sua datus ordine suo legationem suscipere non admissa biennii praescriptione cogetur.
[PAPINIANUS, from the first book of Responses.] A substitute for another's public duty, having been appointed of his own free will, shall be compelled to undertake an embassy in his own turn, without the two-year exemption being admitted.

Notes

  1. §50.7.14.prordine suo — Ablative of time or manner, meaning "in his own turn" or "according to his own order." It refers to the time when it is his personal turn to be appointed to an embassy, regardless of his prior voluntary service as a substitute.
  2. §50.7.14.prnon admissa biennii praescriptione — Ablative absolute construction. While a person who has completed a public duty is generally entitled to a two-year exemption (praescriptio) from subsequent duties, this two-year exemption is not allowed (non admissa) if they volunteered to serve as a substitute (uicarius) for someone else's duty.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.7.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.7.14.pr

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