- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
Paulus answers a query on whether a tutor can summon his own patroness to court without the praetor's permission when acting in the name of his ward, confirming that he can.
[IDEM libro secundo responsorum.]
[THE SAME, in the second book of Responses.]
Quaesitum est, an tutor pupilli nomine patronam suam1 sine permissu praetoris uocare possit. respondi eum, de quo quaeritur,2 pupilli nomine etiam in ius uocare patronam suam potuisse sine permissu praetoris.
The question was asked whether a tutor, in the name of his ward, could summon his own patroness without the permission of the praetor. I replied that the person in question could, in the name of the ward, summon his own patroness to court even without the permission of the praetor.
- 2.4.16.prpatronam suam
The reflexive possessive adjective suam refers to the subject of the clause, tutor. Therefore, it means "his own patroness" (the tutor's own), rather than the patroness of the ward (pupillus) who is the nominal party to the suit.
- 2.4.16.preum, de quo quaeritur
The accusative subject of the accusative-and-infinitive construction (Oratio Obliqua) depending on the main verb respondi. The relative clause de quo quaeritur ("about whom it is asked") modifies eum and refers back to the tutor of the preceding sentence.