- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-06
The text discusses what action a curator for purchasing wheat can bring against a sub-curator who ruined the wheat, concluding through analogies with co-guardians and magistrates that an action for the management of affairs should be granted.
[IULIANUS libro tertio digestorum.]
[JULIANUS, Digest, Book III]
Ex facto quaerebatur: quendam ad siliginem emendam curatorem decreto ordinis constitutum:1 eidem alium subcuratorem constitutum siliginem miscendo corrupisse atque ita pretium siliginis, quae in publicum empta erat, curatori adflictum esse: quaque actione curator cum subcuratore experiri possit et consequi id, ut ei saluum esset, quod causa eius damnum cepisset.2 Ualerius Seuerus respondit aduersus contutorem negotiorum gestorum actionem tutori dandam: idem respondit: ut magistratui aduersus magistratum eadem actio detur,3 ita tamen, si non sit conscius fraudis. secundum quae etiam in subcuratore idem dicendum est.
A question was asked on the basis of the following fact: a certain person was appointed by a decree of the local senate as curator for purchasing wheat; another person was appointed as sub-curator for him, and this sub-curator ruined the wheat by mixing it, and thus the loss of the price of the wheat, which had been purchased for the public, fell upon the curator. By what action can the curator sue the sub-curator and obtain that the damage he suffered on his account should be made good to him? Valerius Severus answered that an action for the management of affairs should be given to a guardian against his co-guardian; he also answered that the same action should be given to a magistrate against another magistrate, provided, however, that he was not an accomplice to the fraud. According to these principles, the same must be said also in the case of a sub-curator.
- 3.5.29.prquendam ad siliginem emendam curatorem decreto ordinis constitutum
The entire factual context following the main verb quaerebatur is presented through a series of accusative with infinitive (A.c.I.) constructions: quendam... constitutum [esse], corrupisse, and adflictum esse. The auxiliary verb esse is omitted and must be supplied.
- 3.5.29.prut ei saluum esset, quod causa eius damnum cepisset
The ut clause is a noun clause of result or purpose explaining the preceding object id. quod is a relative pronoun whose antecedent is an implied id or damnum, meaning 'the loss which he had suffered (cepisset)'. causa eius expresses the cause, meaning 'on his account' (referring to the sub-curator).
- 3.5.29.prut magistratui aduersus magistratum eadem actio detur
The content of the response shift from the gerundive construction (dandam [esse]) in the previous sentence to an ut clause with the subjunctive (detur), expressing an indirect command or recommendation.