Aproximación a la figura del discussor

Abstract

Este trabajo analiza el régimen jurídico de los discussores, funcionarios presentes a partir del Bajo Imperio, a quienes correspondían tareas de inspección e intervención fiscal, entre otras recogidas en las fuentes. Se examinan aquí sus principales derechos y obligaciones y las medidas establecidas por la normativa imperial para prevenir y sancionar eventuales abusos. En el último apartado se analiza brevemente la pervivencia de estos funcionarios en el Imperio Bizantino y en algunos de los reinos que sucedieron a la caída del Imperio Romano de Occidente.

Abstract: This paper analyzes the legal regime of the discussores, officials present since the Later Empire, whose tasks were mainly of tax inspection and intervention, among others collected in the sources. Their main rights and obligations and the measures established by imperial regulations to prevent and sanction possible abuses are examined here. In the last section it is briefly analyzed the survival of these officials in the Byzantine Empire and in some of the kingdoms that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Abstract: This paper analyzes the legal regime of the discussores, officials present since the Later Empire, whose tasks were mainly of tax inspection and intervention, among others collected in the sources. Their main rights and obligations and the measures established by imperial regulations to prevent and sanction possible abuses are examined here. In the last section it is briefly analyzed the survival of these officials in the Byzantine Empire and in some of the kingdoms that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire.