RESCRIPTUM AD AURELIUM SEVERUM
  
DE LITIBUS DESTITUTIS, DIOCLETIANI UT VIDETUR
  
Rescript of a magistrate on abandoned lawsuits
  
( AD 293 ? )
 
    
P. Amh. II, 27 ( Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri ).
 
 
[.......] debere ...[.........].pat. q(uo)d ? ..bus fiet ac...t .. Const[........] cc (con)sul h(o)d(ie) ? top.h[ vac. ] / ............ Aurelio Seuer[o] .[.]..e..e rescriptum ? ........se ....ationibus impetratum / si contra reum narratio falsi eligitur posse nocere constat neque litem institutam / diu trahi iura [pe]rmittunt si quidem contra eum etiam qui post litem institutam destitit / huiusm[o]di passis quaestionem c...operies tuo destitutori a...r.o.s consulatur / propter quod aditus rector prouinciae pro e....tore...are.[........].rogen[..] / litem institutam aut de[..]..meg...ro saepe constitutum ...c.............. / repete po.n.inonil..[...]....ast...x.t de extraordinariis iudiciis ............ / nondum actionem ...[..].dit agere ....o com....en.....
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Grenfell & Hunt, The Amherst Papyri, Being an Account of the Greek Papyri in the Collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A. at Didlington Hall, Norfolk, II, London, 1901, n. 27 ; Mommsen, ZSS, 22, 1901, pp. 195-197 ; Gradenwitz, ZSS, 23, 1902, pp. 356-379 ; Bruns, Fontes iuris Romani antiqui, I, Tübingen, 1909, pp. 264-265, n. 92 ; Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, Leipzig-Berlin, 1912, Chrest., n. 380 ; Cavenaile, Corpus papyrorum Latinarum, Wiesbaden, 1958, 244 ; Bourne, Coleman-Norton & Johnson, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 234, n. 296 ; Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores : Supplement, Oxford, 1971, n. 1802 ; Wieacker, Römische Rechtsgeschichte, II, München, 1988, p. 166 ; Kaser & Hackl, Das römisches Zivilprozessrecht, München, 1996, pp. 450 and 636.
 
 
►  Source : Papyrus reported in 1901.
 

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