The contribution deals with some hermeneutical positions of classical
Jurists concerning the beneficia imperialia from the point of view of their
deviating from the \u2018ratio iuris\u2019. The Author \u2013 by recalling the metodological
warning of Alberto Burdese about paying vigilant and cautious
attention for the textual data \u2013 examines some sources which regard the
relationship between beneficia and regulae iuris and between beneficia, aequitas,
utilitas and the attribution of the interpretation of beneficia directly to the
Emperor
