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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.18.5.pr

Prohibition on a Governor Appointing Himself as Tutor

Passage 207 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian rules that a governor of a province cannot appoint himself as a tutor, just as he cannot appoint himself as a special judge.

[IDEM libro primo de omnibus tribunalibus. ] §1.18.5.prPraeses prouinciae non magis tutorem quam specialem iudicem ipse se dare potest.
[THE SAME, from the first book On All Tribunals.] The governor of a province can no more appoint himself tutor than he can appoint himself a special judge.

Notes

  1. §1.18.5.prnon magis tutorem quam specialem iudicem — The construction non magis A quam B expresses an equal negation, meaning "no more A than B" or "just as little A as B." Based on the premise that a governor cannot appoint himself as a special judge (B), it asserts that he is likewise unable to appoint himself as a tutor (A).
  2. §1.18.5.pripse se dare — The nominative ipse agrees with the subject praeses, emphasizing that the governor himself does the action. The accusative se is the direct object of the infinitive dare, functioning with tutorem and specialem iudicem as predicative accusatives.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.18.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.5.pr

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