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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §15.1.24.pr

Power of Insane Person's Curator over Peculium

Passage 2283 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that the curator of an insane person has the authority to either grant or deny the administration of a peculium to the insane person's slave or son.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo sexto ad Sabinum. ] §15.1.24.prCurator furiosi administrationem peculii et dare et denegare potest tam seruo furiosi quam filio.
[ULPIANUS in the twenty-sixth book on Sabinus.] The curator of an insane person can both grant and refuse the administration of a peculium to the slave of the insane person as well as to his son.

Notes

  1. 15.1.24.prtam seruo furiosi quam filio — The correlative conjunctions tam... quam... (both... and... / as well as) connect the dative nouns seruo and filio. The genitive furiosi directly modifies seruo, but contextually it also applies to filio ('the son of the insane person').
  2. 15.1.24.pret dare et denegare — The infinitives dare (to grant) and denegare (to refuse) are coordinated by et... et... (both... and...) and function as the complement of the modal verb potest (can), illustrating the broad discretionary power of the curator.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §15.1.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:15.1.24.pr

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