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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.14.4.pr

Prohibition of a Praetor Appointing Himself Guardian or Judge

Passage 181 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States the legal rule that a praetor cannot appoint himself as either a guardian or a special judge.

[IDEM libro primo de omnibus tribunalibus. ] §1.14.4.prPraetor neque tutorem neque specialem iudicem ipse se dare potest.
[THE SAME, in the first book On All Tribunals.] A praetor cannot himself appoint himself either as a guardian or as a special judge.

Notes

  1. 1.14.4.prneque tutorem neque specialem iudicem ipse se dare — The infinitive dare ("to appoint") takes the reflexive pronoun se in the accusative as its direct object, with tutorem ("guardian") and specialem iudicem ("special judge") acting as predicate accusatives in a double accusative construction. The nominative intensive pronoun ipse agrees with the subject praetor, emphasizing that the praetor himself cannot perform this act of appointment upon himself.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.14.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.14.4.pr

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