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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.2.20.pr

Curator's Authority and the Ward's Right to Marry

Passage 3326 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the office of a curator is limited to the administration of the ward's affairs, quoting a rescript of Severus and Antoninus which states that the ward may marry of her own free will.

[PAULUS libro singulari ad orationem diui Seueri et Commodi. ] §23.2.20.prSciendum est ad officium curatoris non pertinere, nubat pupilla an non, quia officium eius in administratione negotiorum constat: et ita Seuerus et Antoninus rescripserunt in haec uerba: 'Ad officium curatoris administratio pupillae pertinet: nubere autem pupilla suo arbitrio potest'.
[PAULUS in his single book on the Address of the divine Severus and Commodus.] It must be known that it does not pertain to the office of a curator whether a female ward marries or not, because his office consists in the administration of affairs; and thus Severus and Antoninus replied by rescript in these words: 'The administration of the female ward pertains to the office of the curator; but the female ward can marry of her own free will.'

Notes

  1. §23.2.20.prSciendum est ad officium curatoris non pertinere, nubat pupilla an non — The impersonal gerundive construction Sciendum est ('it must be known') governs an accusative and infinitive clause, wherein the indirect question clause nubat... an non ('whether... or not') functions substantially as the subject of the infinitive pertinere.
  2. §23.2.20.prcuratoris... pupilla — In strict classical legal terminology, a pupillus/pupilla is under guardianship (tutela), while a curator is appointed for those under curatorship (curatela). Here, the term pupilla is used in a broader or less formal sense to refer to a female ward under the care of a curator.
  3. §23.2.20.pradministratio pupillae — The genitive pupillae is an objective genitive. It refers not to physical custody or personal control of the ward, but to the financial and business administration of her affairs, corresponding to the preceding phrase administratio negotiorum.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.2.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.2.20.pr

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