A Treatise of the Revenue And False Money of the Romans
A Treatise of the Revenue And False Money of the Romans
Franois De Chassepol
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10. C. DC delatoribus. feffioa of the R O M A N S. 77 Feflion by the ftile of Execrable l . The name of delator or informer was infamous ; and if any one had called another an informer, he had an action againft him, and might recover damages m . Every thing that came into any one's pof- feflion by lucrative title, (that is to fay, by way of a teftamentary heirfhip, or in the courfe of fuccefiion to a perfon dying inteftate) by way of legacy, truft, donation on account of death, or donation and ...conveyance between living parties (except moveable goods) was fubjedt to the payment of a duty which was impofed upon all immoveables, and confifted in a certain quantity of gold charged by the acre. The Senators themfelves were not ex- empted from paying this duty ". The Senators paid feven hundred crowns of gold : but the Emperors Arcadius and Hono- rius fupprefled this duty. Cujacius fays in that place, and Godefroy after him, that this gold was called Aurum debate, when the feven hundred crowns of gold were exacted from the Senators ; and Aurum Coronarium^ when le- vied upon the Magiftrates of towns ; and that the Tradefmen paid their duty in filver : which notion doth not feem to me to be well foun- ded .
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