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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.1.2.pr

Ward's Exemption from Requesting Guardian and Traveling

Passage 3730 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius states that a ward should not be required to petition for a guardian or travel to the guardian's location.

[POMPONIUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §26.1.2.prNon est exigendum a pupillo, ut sibi tutorem petat aut ut ad tutorem suum proficiscatur.
[POMPONIUS, On Sabinus, Book 3.] It is not to be required of a ward that he should request a guardian for himself, or that he should go to his guardian.

Notes

  1. §26.1.2.prNon est exigendum a pupillo — An impersonal gerundive (passive periphrastic) construction. While the agent of a gerundive is typically expressed by a dative, here the prepositional phrase 'a pupillo' (from the ward) is used because the verb 'exigere' (to demand from someone) idiomatically takes 'ab' with the ablative to indicate the person from whom something is required. The content of the requirement is expressed by the two subsequent 'ut' subjunctive clauses ('petat' and 'proficiscatur'), whose logical subject is the 'pupillus'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.1.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.1.2.pr

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