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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.7.3.pr

Payment of Travel Allowances to Appointed Envoys

Passage 8739 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that those who undertake a non-gratuitous embassy should be paid their travel allowance in accordance with the established regulations.

[IDEM ex eodem libro. ] §50.7.3.prHis, qui non gratuitam legationem susceperunt, legatiuum ex forma restituatur.
[THE SAME, from the same book.] To those who have undertaken an embassy that is not gratuitous, the travel allowance should be paid in accordance with the established form.

Notes

  1. §50.7.3.prlegatiuum — The noun legativum (nominative neuter singular) is a technical term referring to the travel allowance or expense money paid to an envoy from public funds. It serves as the subject of the verb restituatur.
  2. §50.7.3.prex forma — The combination of the preposition ex and the ablative of forma ('rule', 'formula', or 'standard form'), meaning 'in accordance with the established regulations' or 'according to the official standard'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.7.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.7.3.pr

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