XVI.2.14 = cf. CJ I.3.2
THE SAME AUGUSTUS AND JULIAN CAESAR TO BISHOP FELIX. Clerics shall be protected from every injustice of an undue suit and from every wrong of an unjust exaction, and they shall not be summoned to compulsory public services of a menial nature. Moreover, when tradesmen are summoned to some legally prescribed tax payment, all clerics shall cease to be affected by such a disturbance; for if they have accumulated anything by thrift, foresight, or trading, but still in accordance with honesty, this must be administered for the use of the poor and needy, and whatever they have been able to acquire and collect from their workshops and stalls they shall regard as having been collected for the profit of religion. 1. Moreover, with respect to their men who are employed in trade, the statutes of the sainted Emperor, that is, of Our father, provided with manifold regulations that the aforesaid clerics should abound in numerous privileges. 2. Therefore, with respect to the aforesaid clerics, the requirement of extraordinary services and all molestation shall cease. 3. Moreover, they and their resources and substance shall not be summoned to furnish supplementary postwagons. 4. All clerics shall be assisted by the prerogative of this nature, namely, that wives of clerics and also their children and attendants, males and females equally, and their children, shall continue to be exempt forever from tax payments and free from such compulsory public services. GIVEN ON THE EIGHTH DAY BEFORE THE IDES OF DECEMBER AT MILAN (DECEMBER 6). READ INTO THE RECORDS ON THE FIFTH DAY BEFORE THE KALENDS OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR OF THE NINTH CONSULSHIP OF CONSTANTIUS AUGUSTUS AND THE SECOND CONSULSHIP OF JULIAN CAESAR. - DECEMBER 28, 357 (recte: 356).
(trans. Pharr 1952: 442-443)