The Administration of Italy and the Provinces

During the Principate the administrative organisation of Italy and the provinces remained largely as it was during the later Republic, although gradually it became more centralised.

In the first century AD Italy retained its privileged position in relation to the rest of the empire. Its inhabitants enjoyed all the rights of the Roman citizenship and Italian lands were exempted from taxation {stipendium, tributum soli) as being subject to dominium ex iure Quiritium, i.e. ownership according to the rules of the Roman ius civile. In the course of time, however, the centre of the empire's economic life shifted from Italy to the provinces and, by the middle of the second century AD, the position of Italy was not different from that of the rest of the empire.^[861]

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1. The Administration of the Provinces
2. The Organisation of Italy and the Provinces
3. The provinces
4. B. ROMAN LAW AND THE PROVINCES
5. The provinces
6. The administrative organisation of Italy
7. Italy
8. 7.7.3 The Ius Commune in Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and the Netherlands
9. The Administration of Justice
10. A Case-Study of Sovereignty and Autonomy in Italy
11. The Roman Expansion in Italy
12. The Conquest of Italy
13. THE NEW LEARNING OUTSIDE ITALY
14. Acquisition and Administration of the Inheritance
15. The Administration of Justice: Civil Procedure
16. The Administration of Justice: Civil Procedure
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