[ULPIANUS libro primo ad edictum. ] §2.3.1.prOmnibus magistratibus, non tamen duumuiris, secundum ius potestatis suae concessum est iurisdictionem suam defendere poenali iudicio. §2.3.1.1Is uidetur ius dicenti non obtemperasse, qui quod extremum in iurisdictione est non fecit: ueluti si quis rem mobilem uindicari a se passus non est, sed duci eam uel ferri passus est: ceterum si et sequentia recusauit, tunc non obtemperasse uidetur. §2.3.1.2Si procurator tuus uel tutor uel curator ius dicenti non obtemperauit, ipse punitur, non dominus uel pupillus. §2.3.1.3Non solum autem reum, qui non obtemperauit, hoc edicto teneri Labeo ait, uerum etiam petitorem. §2.3.1.4Hoc iudicium non ad id quod interest, sed quanti ea res est concluditur: et cum meram poenam contineat, neque post annum neque in heredem datur.
[ULPIAN, on the Edict, Book I.] magistrates, but not duumviri, are permitted, in accordance with the right of their power, to defend their jurisdiction by a penal action. is deemed not to have obeyed the person administering justice who did not perform what is the ultimate step in jurisdiction; for example, if someone did not allow a movable thing to be claimed from him, but did allow it to be led or carried away; otherwise, if he refused also the subsequent steps, then he is deemed not to have obeyed. your procurator, tutor, or curator has not obeyed the person administering justice, he himself is punished, not the principal or the ward., Labeo says that not only the defendant who has not obeyed is bound by this edict, but also the plaintiff. action is limited not to the damages, but to the value of the matter; and since it involves a pure penalty, it is granted neither after a year nor against an heir.