- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.5.28.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-06
The passage discusses whether the action of guardianship or that of management of affairs should be brought against a testamentary guardian of a posthumous child, depending on whether the child is actually born.
[CALLISTRATUS libro tertio edicti monitorii.]
[CALLISTRATUS, From the Monitorial Edict, Book III]
Cum pater testamento postumo tutorem dederit isque tutelam interim administrauerit nec postumus natus fuerit, cum eo non tutelae, sed negotiorum gestorum erit agendum:1 quod si natus fuerit postumus, tutelae erit actio et in eam utrumque tempus ueniet, et quo,2 antequam nasceretur infans, gessit et quo, posteaquam natus sit.
When a father by testament has appointed a guardian for a posthumous child, and he in the meantime has administered the guardianship, but the posthumous child has not been born, one must proceed against him not by the action of guardianship, but by that of the management of affairs; but if the posthumous child has been born, there will be an action of guardianship, and both periods will fall under it: both that in which he managed the affairs before the infant was born, and that after he was born.
- 3.5.28.prtutelae... negotiorum gestorum erit agendum
The genitives 'tutelae' and 'negotiorum gestorum' imply the omission of the noun 'actione'. They are construed with the impersonal passive 'erit agendum', meaning that proceeding must be made not by the action of guardianship, but by the action of management of affairs.
- 3.5.28.pret quo... et quo
These are parallel relative clauses (et quo... et quo...) where the relative pronoun 'quo' in the ablative case refers back to the antecedent 'tempus' (period), explaining the specific details of 'utrumque tempus' (both periods): the period before the child was born, and the period after.