DN. sacratissimi principis Justiniani PP. A. Juris enucleati ex omni vetere jure collecti Digestorum seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta

it is permitted to apply to the Emperor. 24.
If anything has been impetrated or requested against law or public utility or through falsehood. 25.
On diverse rescripts, to which are contrary subreption, obreption, and uncivil petition: he calls them diverse here, because some do not make law, some are personal and temporal, some perpetual: valid, invalid, and by pragmatic sanctions or commands, that is, in which the Prince responds more with difficulty to prayers, with counsel employed at the report of judges, nor to the prayers of individuals and in private matters, but to those of cities and provinces. 26.
On statues and images, which were sometimes erected to the Emperor, sometimes to judges. 27.
On those who take refuge to statues, of the Princes, that is; for those who take refuge to the statue of the Emperor seem to supplicate the Prince and seek aid against the violence of another. 28.
On Magistrates, who are the living voice of civil law and legislation, whose treatment can be considered:
In species, and they are either:
Illustrious
In the provinces:
On the office of the Praetorian Prefect, for there were two, of the East, who were in Asia, and of Illyricum who were in Europe. 29.
On the office of the Prefect of Africa, which Justinian had recovered from the Vandals who had occupied it, and on all the status of its departure, which status was divided into seven provinces. In law 2 of this Title, Justinian commands Belisarius to place soldiers in the passage to Spain, who would observe those things which were done in the parts of Gaul or of the Franks, so that it is a wonder when Gaul did not obey Justinian, how it comes to pass that there are found in the Gauls provinces which use this law written by Justinian, unless one wishes to reach back from the times of Alexander Severus, under whom Paul writes that the Gauls of Lyons, Vienna, and Narbonne were of Italian law. 30.
In the city:
On the office of the Prefect of the City, of Constantinople, that is. 31. For he does not mention the Roman one: to this Prefect the care of the city and the hundredth milestone from it was committed beyond the hundredth of the Prefect.
In the camps:
On the office of the Master of Soldiers, who, that is, had that power over soldiers and their leaders which the Praetorian Prefect had over provincials and Presidents. 32.
In the court:
On the office of the Quaestor. 33. Quaestor, first called from the seeking of money. Princes later used them for speeches and epistles and petitions to be recited in the Senate, whose authority finally grew so much that they not only recited but composed edicts and laws in the place of the Prince. Some think this word signifies him whom we call Chancellor.
On the office of the Master of Offices, of the courtiers, that is. 34.
On the office of the Count of Sacred Largesses. 35. Count is called from accompanying or following. He is called the Count of sacred largesses who was once the Prefect of the treasury, later called the Procurator of the treasury fiscus.
On the office of the Count of Private Affairs. 36.
On the office of the Count of the Sacred Patrimony. 37. Some read of the Sacred Palace.
Spectable, which dignity is the middle between Illustrious and Clarissimi most famous.
On the office of the Proconsul, who was sent into certain provinces with Consular imperium, and the legate, who was given to the Proconsul. 38. Erroneously here is added the office of the Count of the Sacred Patrimony: the Proconsul and Legate had cognizance of civil and criminal cases.
On the office of the Count of the East. Wesembecius here notes that this count did not have jurisdiction, but was accustomed to observe the acts of magistrates and the complaints of provincials, and to report those things to the Prince so that he might differ from the Praetorian Prefect of the East. 39.
On the office of the Augustal Prefect. 40. So called because he was established by Augustus in Egypt; his seat was Alexandria.
On the office of the Vicar, to the Praetorian Prefect, that is; this vicar in civil cases was preferred to the counts of soldiers, in military matters he was postponed to them. 41.
Clarissimi Most Famous,
Ordinary.
In the city, On the office of the Praetor. 42.
In the province, On the office of the Rector of the province. 43. He had cognizance of the fact, and concerning its incidents and the cause of ownership; he reported contumacious persons to the Praetorian Prefect or to the Emperor. These same ones, if good, are to be praised, so if not performing their office, they are to be accused.
They ought to have cognizance of officials of the Prefects who are delinquent.
And that no one be permitted to leave his administration without the special permission of the Prince, these final words have a special Title in certain Codes.
Extraordinary.
On the office of the Prefect of the Watch. 44.
On the office of the Prefect of the Annona grain supply. 45.
In general, whom we consider either
In the City, that is, Constantinople and Rome.
In the Province and dioceses.
On the office of civil Judges. 46. Such are the Prefects of the city, the Praetor, who have jurisdiction either between private persons or between a soldier as plaintiff and a private person as defendant.
In the Militia.
On the office of military Judges. 47. Such are the Counts, Masters of horse and foot, who have cognizance between private persons as plaintiff and a soldier as defendant.
On the office of the Tribune and Count of military affairs. 48.
This title is read by Cujacius.
That baths are not to be provided for military counts or tribunes. 48.
Mixedly,
On the office of diverse judges. 49. So that, that is,