- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.21.4.pr-1.21.4.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
Macer discusses the delegation of jurisdiction over suspected tutors, citing a rescript of the Emperors Severus and Antoninus, and explains that other actions, such as granting possession of goods, can also be delegated.
[MACER libro primo de officio praesidis.]
[MACER, On the Office of Governor, Book 1.]
Cognitio de suspectis tutoribus mandari potest. immo etiam ex mandata generali iurisdictione1 propter utilitatem pupillorum eam contingere2 constitutum est in haec uerba: 'Imperatores Seuerus et Antoninus Braduae proconsuli Africae.
Jurisdiction to try suspected tutors can be delegated. Indeed, it has also been established, in the following words, that even from a generally delegated jurisdiction, for the benefit of wards, this jurisdiction falls [to the delegatee]: ‘The Emperors Severus and Antoninus to Bradua, Proconsul of Africa.
Cum propriam iurisdictionem legatis tuis dederis, consequens est, ut etiam de suspectis tutoribus possint cognoscere.' Ut possessio bonorum detur, uel si cui damni infecti non caueatur ut is possidere iubeatur, aut uentris nomine in possessionem mulier, uel is cui legatum est legatorum seruandorum causa in possessionem mittatur, mandari potest.3
Since you have given your own jurisdiction to your legates, it follows that they can also try suspected tutors.’ It can be delegated that possession of goods be granted, or that if security against threatened damage is not given to someone, he be ordered to take possession, or that a woman be put into possession on account of an unborn child, or that a legatee be put into possession for the purpose of preserving legacies.
- 1.21.4.prex mandata generali iurisdictione
An ablative phrase governed by the preposition ex, where the participle mandata and the adjective generali modify the noun iurisdictione, meaning 'on the basis of a generally delegated jurisdiction.'
- 1.21.4.pream contingere
eam is the accusative singular feminine pronoun referring to the preceding cognitio. contingere is the infinitive in an accusative-and-infinitive construction (A.C.I.) which forms the subject clause of the impersonal passive constitutum est ('it has been established that...').
- 1.21.4.1ut possessio bonorum detur ... mandari potest
Several subjunctive noun clauses (ut possessio bonorum detur, ut is possidere iubeatur, and with ut omitted, mulier/is ... in possessionem mittatur) are connected by coordinating conjunctions (uel, aut, uel) to serve as the subject of mandari potest ('can be delegated') at the end of the sentence.