[PAPINIANUS libro sexto responsorum. ] §22.6.10.prImpuberes sine tutore agentes nihil posse uel scire intelleguntur.
[PAPINIANUS, in his sixth book of Opinions.] Pupils acting without a tutor are understood to be unable to do or know anything.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.6.10.pr
Incapacity and Lack of Knowledge in Wards without Tutors
Summary
It states that pupils who act without the authority of a tutor are deemed to possess neither legal capacity to act nor the capacity to know.
Notes
- §22.6.10.prnihil posse uel scire intelleguntur — The passive verb intelleguntur ("are understood/deemed") is accompanied by the infinitives posse and scire, forming a nominative with infinitive (nominativus cum infinitivo) construction with the subject impuberes. The negative pronoun nihil ("nothing") applies to both infinitives (i.e., nihil posse and nihil scire). Here, posse refers to having the legal capacity to act (with facere implied), while scire refers to having legal awareness or knowledge.
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.6.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.6.10.pr
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