Yet, “its most serious restriction, ” notes scholar Emil Schürer,“ was that the Roman authorities could at any time take the initiative themselves and proceed independently, as in fact they did when they suspected a political offence. ”
याचं एक उदाहरण म्हणजे, क्लौद्य लुसिया या रोमी अधिकाऱ्‍याने अशाच प्रकारे एक खटला स्वतःकडे घेतला होता.