Autorytarne sprawowanie władzy a delacja fiskalna: ustawodawstwo cesarskie dotyczące majątków przypadających fiskusowi w późnym Cesarstwie Rzymskim (364–444 n.e.)
Authoritarian Exercise of Power and Fiscal Denunciation: Imperial Legislation on Property Accruing to the Fiscus in the Late Roman Empire (364–444 AD)

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the imperial constitutions found in Title 10, Book 10 of the Codex Theodosianus within the broader context of the authoritarian exercise of power by emperors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries. These legal regulations– primarily directed against fiscal delators– raise numerous interpretative questions regarding the precise scope of the prohibitions they establish, as well as the underlying motivations behind their promulgation. The subject remains relatively underexplored in Roman law scholarship with respect to this particular aspect. The core aim of the article is to investigate the rationale behind the shift in imperial policy toward fiscal delators, particularly the introduction of penalties applied upon the third successful (i.e., substantiated and credible) denunciation of property classified as bona caduca, vacantia, or damnatorum, culminating eventually in the complete prohibition of petitions regarding such assets. The study also articulates several specific theses that directly link this legislative evolution to the efforts of authoritarian rulers during the period in question to assert maximum control over the redistribution of these categories of wealth.

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