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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.5.22.pr

Duty of Magistrates to Provide Witnesses and Signatories

Passage 3275 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Venuleius specifies that local magistrates should provide themselves and others as witnesses or signatories for those wishing to make attestations, to facilitate transactions and preserve proof.

[UENULEIUS libro secundo de officio proconsulis. ] §22.5.22.prCurent magistratus cuius- que loci testari uolentibus et se ipsos et alios testes uel signatores praebere, quo facilius negotia explicentur et probatio rerum salua sit.
[VENULEIUS in the second book on the Office of the Proconsul.] The magistrates of each place should take care to offer both themselves and others as witnesses or signatories to those who wish to make an attestation, so that transactions may be more easily carried out and the proof of matters may be preserved.

Notes

  1. 22.5.22.prcurent... praebere — curent is a jussive subjunctive (third-person plural present). While the verb curare often takes an ut-clause, here it directly governs the infinitive praebere, meaning 'to take care to provide' or 'to manage to offer'.
  2. 22.5.22.prtestari uolentibus — testari is the infinitive of the deponent verb testor (to testify, make an attestation, or prove). uolentibus is the dative plural of the present participle used substantively, serving as the indirect object of praebere, meaning 'to those who wish to make a legal attestation'.
  3. 22.5.22.prquo facilius — Since a comparative (here the adverb facilius) is present within the purpose clause, the conjunction quo (derived from the ablative) is used instead of ut.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.5.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.5.22.pr

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