Note 1874 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE
Reading edition
Pliny often raises this question in his correspondence with Trajan (31 [40], 4; 56 [64], 3; 57 [65], 1). The passages seem to show (i.) that there was at the time no fixed rule defining the governor’s power of restitutio, at least in public provinces; (ii.) that restitutio by a governor was felt to be permissible in certain cases.