[Novellae constitutiones]

Stipulation: Therefore, the treasury will stand by that rule.

Causes, when judged, are treated by common law. Or, if the advocate is absent, the sentence is void by operation of law. It is not confirmed by the passage of time. If an instrument is omitted, it is retracted within three years by the office of the judge. If corruption of money has intervened in the judge or the agent of the treasury, it is void by operation of law even after three years. If it happened through favor or ambition, it is retracted beyond three years. In that case, he is held for four years from the day of the sentence. And thus, it uses common law when prevarication has intervened. What I said about public law, the same can be said for the church and a ward.

For those pursuing their own property, the collection of penalties is postponed: thus, the treasury's pursuit is stronger in the amount of the principal; but for the triple amount added in the name of penalty, the proper form must be maintained.

Regarding fiscal interest.

Eius The Emperor: Whatever sum you are about to prove was inflicted in your name as a penalty, the laws do not demand interest for it, nor did our procurator impose a fine on you beyond what was settled; rather, he ordered the penalty to be paid.

Sub pignore Under pledge: If credit was given under a pledge, even the treasury, which succeeds to the place of the debtor, must pay interest if it was settled by pact.

Iscū The Emperor: We order that our treasury also be subject to our sanction, by which we have permitted creditors to stipulate interest up to half of a centesima, except for certain persons. We permit that even the treasury itself shall not demand half a centesima from its debtors, whether they promised it primarily or whether the actions were devolved to it from former creditors in any way.

Regarding the retraction of sentences passed against the treasury.

Causes in which it was judged against the treasury can be retracted within three years. It is known that after that time, if prevarication is argued or manifest fraud is proven, it can be challenged.

Regarding vacant goods and incorporation.

Scire The Emperor: Your gravity should know that the property of those who die intestate without a legitimate heir is to be claimed for the accounts of our treasury. Cities should not be heard when they attempt to claim for themselves the right to sell these things, as if by permission. Henceforth, do not doubt that you must recall to our office whatever goods of intestates have been occupied by cities under the guise of their privileges.

Iqñ The Emperor: When our annotations imperial privileges/grants contain possession or a house that we have donated in its entirety, these words will have the force of what we wrote before, namely, with the adjacent lands and slaves.