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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.21.2.pr-1.21.2.1

Limits on Delegated Authority and Sale of Ward Property

Passage 230 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text explains that a person with delegated jurisdiction cannot hold an advisory council, and that the authority to conduct an inquiry regarding the sale of a ward's property cannot be transferred through delegation.

[ULPIANUS libro tertio de omnibus tribunalibus. ] §1.21.2.prMandata iurisdictione a praeside consilium non potest exercere is, cui mandatur.
[ULPIANUS, On All Tribunals, Book 3.] Where jurisdiction has been delegated by a governor, the person to whom it is delegated cannot hold a council.
§1.21.2.1Si tutores uel curatores uelint praedia uendere, causa cognita id praetor uel praeses permittat: quod si mandauerit iurisdictionem, nequaquam poterit mandata iurisdictione eam quaestionem transferre.
If tutors or curators wish to sell landed estates, the praetor or governor should permit this only after an inquiry into the case; but if he delegates his jurisdiction, he can by no means transfer that inquiry by the delegation of jurisdiction.

Notes

  1. §1.21.2.prconsilium non potest exercere is — consilium is the accusative neuter singular, serving as the object of the infinitive exercere. The grammatical subject of the sentence is is, modified by the relative clause cui mandatur. consilium exercere refers to convening or consulting an advisory council (consilium) which magistrates traditionally assembled to guide their decisions.
  2. §1.21.2.1causa cognita — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun causa and the perfect passive participle cognita (both feminine ablative singular), expressing a condition: "after an inquiry into the case." In the latter half of the sentence, eam quaestionem (that inquiry) refers back to the same judicial examination implied by causa cognita.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.21.2.pr-1.21.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.21.2.pr-1.21.2.1

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