- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-02
This chunk explains that appointing an absent person as a procurator requires the person to be specific and subsequently ratify the appointment, and that a madman, lacking mental capacity, cannot be treated as an absent person or ratify such an appointment.
[PAULUS libro octauo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS libro octauo ad edictum.]
dummodo certus sit qui datus intellegetur et is ratum habuerit.1
provided that he who is understood to be appointed is certain, and he has ratified it.
Furiosus non est habendus absentis loco, quia in eo animus deest, ut ratum habere non possit.2
A madman is not to be regarded in the place of an absent person, because in him mind is lacking, so that he cannot ratify.
- 3.3.2.prdummodo certus sit qui datus intellegetur et is ratum habuerit
The restrictive conjunction dummodo ("provided that") governs the subjunctive verbs sit and habuerit. It sets a condition for the preceding statement that a procurator can be appointed in his absence. The verb intellegetur in the relative clause is in the future indicative, referring to the person who will be understood as appointed.
- 3.3.2.1animus deest, ut ratum habere non possit
The ut clause is a clause of result ("so that..."), expressing the logical consequence that because a madman (furiosus) lacks mental capacity (animus), he is unable to ratify (ratum habere) the appointment.