part because appellate jurisdiction in fiscal cases had been returned to them in 385. The imperial estates and holdings were huge. Their res privata was directly under the management of the RP. The patromonium, or imperial inheritance were lands leased to individuals. Both were under the jurisdiction of the comes rerum privatarum. In the West the rents and tax income was shared with the sacrae largitionum but not in the East. In the East the palace administration took over gradually post-450 and the RP was finally dissolved by Justinian's successors. See also Agentes in rebus Comes Congiarium Donativum Rationibus Roman commerce Roman economy References Further reading Jean Andreau: Banking and Business in the Roman World, translated by Janet Lloyd (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Limited preview online. Economic history of Italy Finance in Italy