The same Augustus to John, Praetorian Prefect. We decree that, if ever he should be absent who detains property belonging to another or liable to a creditor, and the owner of the property or the creditor desires to set forth his claim, and it is not permitted to him — his adversary who detains the property being absent, or laboring under infancy or under madness and having no guardian or curator, or being established in supreme power [so as to usurp the same property by his own authority] — let permission be given to him to approach the governor of the province, to present a petition to him, to bring these matters into a complaint, and within the appointed times to make an interruption of prescription; but if he is in no way able to approach the governor, let him at least go to the bishop of the place and hasten to manifest his will to him in writing. Given at Constantinople, on the Kalends
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Octob. postconsul. LampadiietOrestisv,. cc. coss. 531.
十月，蘭帕迪烏斯與奧瑞斯特斯二位顯貴任執政官之後，五三一年。
of October, after the consulship of Lampadius and Orestes, most distinguished men, 531.