- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Ulpian explains that this edict does not apply if a debtor performs an obligation that was to be claimed, and that an analogous action is available if a tutor or agnate alienates property.
[ULPIANUS libro duodecimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, On the Edict, Book XII]
Nam et si obligatus soluero quod a me petere uelles,1 huic edicto locus non erit.
For even if, being under an obligation, I perform what you wished to claim from me, there will be no place for this edict.
Si tutor pupilli uel adgnatus furiosi alienauerint, utilis actio competit, quia consilium huius fraudis inire non possunt.2
If the tutor of a pupil or the agnate of an insane person should alienate, an analogous action is available, because they cannot enter into the design of this fraud.
- 4.7.10.prquod a me petere uelles
The imperfect subjunctive uelles expresses the past intention of the claimant, or a hypothetical situation in the past (what you would have wished to claim).
- 4.7.10.1quia consilium huius fraudis inire non possunt
There are two possible interpretations for the subject of possunt. (1) It refers to the ward (pupillus) and the insane person (furiosus). Since they lack legal capacity, they cannot form a fraudulent intent (consilium fraudis); therefore, an analogous action (utilis actio) rather than a direct one is granted against the acts of the tutor or agnate. This translation adopts this view. (2) It refers to the tutor and the agnate (tutor... uel adgnatus...). Since they are merely managing another's property, they cannot directly fulfill the subjective requirement of the fraud (avoiding their own trial) contemplated by this edict, which necessitates an analogous action.