[Novellae constitutiones]

a Trenarchas superintendents: one who performs a personal duty and is compelled to spend nothing of his own, and food and expenses must be provided for him from the public treasury, as in the Digest original: "ff." on duties and honors, law finis end, section prenarchae chiefs/superintendents. And these are elected by the decurions by the judgment of the president, as in the Digest on prenarchae, law 1.

b Optione a type of collector: one kind of exacter of public debt is called an optio choice/option, because he collects, see below, on the public apotheca storehouse, book liber book x?, law quicumque whoever, and below, book 12, on the distribution of military annona, law optationibus by options, perhaps because he receives what he chooses, or because of the places, law finis.

c Consuetudine custom: in providing expenses or also in election, and thus note per by custom in the provision of expenses, to which see on public pastures, law 1, law 2.

Custom, or by providing the expenses of the household, let it remain undisturbed regarding the prenarcha superintendent and the optio, observing every ancient custom. Emperors.

d Principal/main, otherwise of the first, and otherwise principally. And note that this law concerns the treasury. It is the common law, indeed certainly the main one; and add what is noted in the Digest on the rights of the treasury, law in, section multa fine.

Res original: "Res patrimoniales" patrimonial assets of an estate of those who are said to have polluted their conscience with crimes against the treasury during their lifetime ought not to be alienated by him, unless it is established after a public accusation that they have been convicted. Emperors.

e Their first status state: posit the cases in three ways. First, here, the person dying in a state of guilt does not have the treasury as heir unless he was convicted and condemned while living, as in the Digest on accusations, law ex iudiciorum, in the beginning. But it fails when the crime is such that it passes to heirs, like treason, or as noted there. But it also fails if he was already condemned and an appeal is pending; for then it will be distinguished whether the sentence was regarding property, either tacit or express, as in the Code original: "C." if appeal is pending, law filii, and below, if the accused or accuser has died, law 1, end, and in the Digest if appeal is pending, law unica, in the beginning; for this criminal can be released, and he administers his own goods, as in the Digest of the same, law aufertur, below if in a state of guilt, and on property, law reo the accused. Second, posit that when a criminal dies, if an heir is held for the crime, he wants his goods; if the heir denies the crime, the treasury cannot have his goods unless it first proves the deceased was a criminal, as here, and in the Digest of the same, law res quae. Third, supramemoratus aforementioned and that because he committed suicide original: "conciuerit sibi mortem", and see the aforementioned crimes, and understand that he committed suicide for this reason; for then the goods should not be taken by the treasury unless he committed suicide because of the crime, not out of weariness of life, as in the Digest of the same, in fraude, section eius, and below on their goods, law 1, in the beginning, and unless the crime was proven before death, as here, and in the Digest of the same, in fraude, section eius, but if he was accused or summoned or caught in the crime while alive, and the crime is such that he would lose his goods if convicted while alive, as in the Digest on their goods, law 1, end, and it pertains to this law, Digest of the same, law eius qui, end; but see how today it is restricted, as in the Authentica Authentic text original: "ut nulli iudi", section in fine; understand first that someone...

Since you request by just reason the indemnity promised to the treasury, it is proper to proceed first against those who have contracted the remainders debts, and soon after against you who have purchased certain things from them. The same.

f Reliqua remainders/debts: obsere to bind, i.e., to be made debtors of the treasury, as below on the manumission of testaments, law cum testamento, and in the Digest on condictions, and on the cum-fuus.

I know indeed that an action remains against you for the silver that you were bound to bring.

Since by just reason in three ways the public business was administered for which you promised indemnity by acting as sureties. First, therefore, the principal is to be proceeded against before the surety, as below on decurions, law 1; in others, it is different by this law, as in the Code on sureties, law iure nostro; but today it is the same for both, as in the Authentica on sureties, section 1; and what is said before does nothing here. But mercati estis you have purchased is to be added; also say "promised indemnity," i.e., you or another; say that they themselves, conducting public business, promised indemnity and contracted debts; and you who bought are proceeded against by mortgage action, as in the Digest on the rights of the treasury, law moechis. Thus it is done in the Digest law 1, end, on the debt, au? i. law 1, end. Also for both positions, see the Digest on the administration of things belonging to the city, law curatores, end; or say thirdly, that he who acted promised indemnity and you who bought have not yet paid the price, and thus the treasury proceeds against the debtor of its own debtor without the debtor being ordered, provided he proceeds first and, if found not paying, as in the Digest...

g In his accounts: if the archivist did not note the caution that was exposed to you concerning this, it is fair, however, that first it is satisfied from the goods of him who was the exacter if he is solvent; and the power is given to him to satisfy the indemnity of the treasury; then, if the method cannot be found, let it be demanded. Emperors.

...on the rights of the treasury, law in, section multa, above when the treasury, as before, law non prius. It is different in a private matter, finally condemning the debtor, and then by the office of the executor, but the law of the action is the utilis actio useful action which is had against the debtor, or directly, as below, when a son or father, etc., and it pertains to the Digest on mandate, law si mandato meo, end, and in the Digest ommo, law unde quaeritur, in the beginning, and on those who are accepted, law 2, and in the Digest on sureties, law si dubitet, and on deposit, law finis.

g Argentum silver: payment does not reach the treasury, or if it reaches, it is not freed by the payment of what is owed, as above on non numerata pecunia money not counted, or otherwise than proper to the exacter, see opera.

h Usura usury/interest: i.e., know what is called reliqua remainders even if nothing is paid, as in the Digest above, etc.

i Sociatos associates: otherwise osos hateful/burdened chosen after the same office.

k Efisque: i.e., Augurius and his son, the aforementioned remainders.

l Nominum names/debts: coming forth for that which you saw you prohibited.

m Mandatum mandate: from the nominator, to not be able to exact from those alone, as in the Digest on procurators, law itaque, and above on procurators, husband, and thus divided the administration as he subjoins. But if you say the bishops of the exactors divided it among themselves, it is clear as in the gloss.

h Rationibus accounts: i.e., public accounts. Paid ratio reason that he is held; rather it is that he is not held by subscription, and here in the way that it should not be done on the accepted, as below on the collection of funera funerals, as in the Authentica on ecclesiastical things, indeed others, I order, to which one of the two archivists must subscribe, as below on the accepted, law duos; and if it is done, the payer is immediately secure, as above on quaestio praescriptio prescription of question, law 2, in the end, and on money not counted, law 1, in oractibus. In the Digest, done in that way, not as here, for the written, as in the Code on proof, law exemplum.

i Subnotavit noted below: i.e., see above, above, above, counted, no, law 2.

k Datur is given: to the treasury. And it makes [in the] Code above on codicils, law finis, and if it is, or curation, in your law, in the remainders, of taxes, or other debts of the treasury.

Usuriously Augurius and his son, you say that you and your associates are strong for exacting the remainders, and that a mandate was given to them for the exaction of certain names only, and not to him and the others who were noted as exactors, that the mutual danger of the full exaction was constituted; you have affirmed that the reason of the separate solicitude by the separate observance of the duty does not differ from the law.