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Gregorius Petro subdiacono Campaniæ. Sicut in judiciis laicorum u privilegia turbare non cupimus, ita eis praejudicantibus, moderata te 627 volumus auctoritate resistere. Violentos namque laicos coercere, non contra leges est agere, sed legi ferre subsidium.
Gregory to Peter, subdeacon of Campania. Just as in the judgments of laymen we do not desire to disturb their privileges, so, when they prejudge, we wish you to resist with moderate authority. For to coerce violent laymen is not to act against the laws, but to bring aid to the law.
貴格利致坎帕尼亞的副執事伯多祿。正如在俗人的審斷中我們不願擾亂他們的特權，照樣，當他們濫加成見時，我們願你以有節制的權柄予以抵制。因為約束強暴的俗人，並非違背律法而行，乃是為律法帶來援助。
256:2
Quia igitur Deusdedit gener Felicis de Orlicello præsentium lalrici violentiam dicitur irrogasse, praefatamque rem illicite detinere, ita ut viduitatis ejus dejectio non misericordiam provocare, sed ejus inveniatur roborare malitiam, præcipimus experientiæ tu:e ut tam contra praefatum virurn, quam in cæteris causis, in quibus se asserit praefata femina pra'judicium sustinere, ture ei solatium tuitionis impendas, nec a quolibet eam prægravari permittas, ne vel ea quae libi, salva tamen æquitate, mandantur, in aliqua inveniaris parte negligere, vel viduis aliisque pauperibus, dum illic auxilium non inveniunt, ex hujus itineris profligenlur longinquitate dispendia.
Since therefore Deusdedit, son-in-law of Felix of Orticellum, is said to have inflicted violence upon the bearer of these presents, and to be unlawfully withholding the aforesaid property, so that the dejection of her widowhood is found not to provoke mercy but to strengthen his malice, we command your Experience that both against the aforesaid man, and in the other causes in which the aforesaid woman asserts that she is suffering prejudice, you extend to her the aid of protection, and permit her to be oppressed by no one; lest either you be found negligent in any part in those things which are enjoined upon you — saving, however, equity — or lest widows and other poor persons, while they find no help there, be worn out by the losses arising from the length of this journey.
既然聽說奧爾提切盧姆的斐理斯之婿德烏斯德狄向本文書的持有人施加了暴力，並不法地扣留上述財產，以致她孀居的窘困非但不引人憐憫，反倒助長了他的惡意，我們便命令你的幹練：無論是針對上述那人，還是在上述那婦人聲稱自己受到不公成見的其他案件中，你都要向她伸出保護的援助，不容任何人欺壓她；免得你在所受囑託的事上（然而要顧全公義）於任何一處被察出疏忽，或免得寡婦及其他窮人在那裡尋不著幫助，卻要因這路途的遙遠而蒙受損失、疲於奔命。