Baldus, Lectura:  Et primo quod ipse est rigor iustitie si est ut esse debet non tartarus (Ed. 1522, 1545: tyrannus), l. Prohibitum C. de iure fisc. lib. x (Cod. 10.1.5). Secundo quod non decet principem suum beneficium revocare, ut not. extra de consang. et affin. c. Quod dilectio (X 4.14.3) in Novella [Johannis Andreae] (et in c. Decet, de reg. iur. in vi.[VI (5.13).16] add. Ed. 1522, 1545, 1578) Tertio quod in principe est plenitudo potestatis.

 

First, the prince is the firmness of justice if he is as he must be and is not a Tartar . . . Second that it is not fitting that the prince revoke his benefits, grants, and privileges . . . Third the prince exercises fullness of power.