If improvements had been made in the meantime, then these too should be recompensed in the case of the smaller local magnates and small monasteries.
[1] In the 960/1 Novel, "Theodore regulated the procedure for the restitution of peasants' and soldiers' properties illegally acquired by the dynatoi" (A.
According to the Peira of Eustathios Rhomaios, he was a member of the tribunal of the Covered Hippodrome that, in presence of the Emperor, adjudicated on an issue of document forgery.
Eustathios, then still young and at the beginning of his career, proposed a different verdict than Dekapolites and the other senior judges, justifying his opinion so well that his view was eventually accepted.
[1] After Dekapolites' death, the poet John Geometres wrote an epigram in his honour, in which the personified Justice and Laws mourn his passing.