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Imperator Justinianus Augustus Mennae. P. P. Si praesens quidem sit qui pecuniam numerasse vel alias res dedisse scriptus est, aliquam vero administrationem in provinciis gerat, ut difficile esse videatur, denuntiationem eidem non numeratas pecu* niæ mittere, licentiam damus ei qui memorata exceptione uti velit, alios judices adire, et per eos ei manifestare quia exceptionem hujusmodi objicit, factam a se super non numerata pecunia querelam esse. Quod si non sit alius administrator civilis, vel militaris, vel per aliquam causam ei sit difficile, qui memoratam querelam opponit, eum adire, et ea quae dicta sunt facere:
查士丁尼皇帝奧古斯都致禁衛軍統領門納斯。若那被記載為曾點交金錢或曾交付其他物品之人雖在場，卻在各省擔任某種職務，以致似乎難以向他送達關於金錢未實際點交的通知，我們便給予那願使用上述抗辯之人以權利，得向其他法官陳訴，並藉他們向對方表明：他提出此種抗辯，即他已就金錢未實際點交一事提出申訴。但若無其他文職或軍職的行政官員，或因某種緣故，提出上述申訴之人難以向他陳訴並行上述之事：
The Emperor Justinian Augustus to Mennas, Praetorian Prefect. If indeed the person who is recorded to have counted out money or to have given other things be present, but should be administering some office in the provinces, so that it seems difficult to send him notice concerning the money not counted out, we give licence to the one who wishes to make use of the said exception, to approach other judges, and through them to make manifest to him that he raises an exception of this kind — namely, that a complaint has been made by him concerning money not counted out. But if there be no other civil or military administrator, or if for some cause it be difficult for the one who raises the said complaint to approach him and to do the things that have been said:
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licentiam damus etiam per virum reverendissimum episcopum eamdem suam exceptionem creditori manifestare, et ita tempus statutum interrumpere. — § 1. Quod etiam in exceptione non numeratae dotis locum habere receptum est. Datum Kalend. Jul., Constantin., do. Justiniano A. II cos. 528.
我們也給予權利，得藉至可敬的主教向債權人表明同一抗辯，從而中斷法定的期限。第一節。此項亦被採納為適用於嫁妝未實際點交的抗辯。頒於七月朔日，於君士坦丁堡，當我主查士丁尼奧古斯都第二度執政之年，公元528年。
we give licence also to make manifest the same exception to the creditor through the most reverend bishop, and thus to interrupt the appointed time. §1. This has also been received as having a place in the exception of dowry not counted out. Given on the Kalends of July, at Constantinople, in the second consulship of our lord Justinian Augustus, in the year 528.