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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.1.5.pr-26.1.5.1

Prohibition of Duplicate Curators and Plurality of Office

Passage 3733 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses that once a curator is appointed for a lawsuit, another cannot be requested for the same suit while the first remains, and that one person can serve as curator against different guardians or for different lawsuits.

[POMPONIUS libro septimo decimo ad Sabinum. ] §26.1.5.prCum semel petitus sit talis curator, quamdiu is curator maneat, alius in eandem litem curator peti non potest.
[POMPONIUS, On Sabinus, Book 17.] Once such a curator has been requested, as long as he remains curator, another curator cannot be requested for the same lawsuit.
§26.1.5.1Etsi Titius uerbi gratia aduersus Seium curator petitus sit, idem Titius aduersus alium tutorem dari poterit, ut ex diuersis causis unus duorum curatorum locum optineat.
Even if Titius, for example, has been requested as curator against Seius, the same Titius can be given against another guardian, so that for different causes one person may hold the place of two curators.
quod quidem et aduersus eundem accidet, si in diuersas lites in diuersis temporibus idem petatur.
This indeed will also happen against the same person, if the same man is requested for different lawsuits at different times.

Notes

  1. 26.1.5.1aduersus Seium — The preposition "aduersus" (against) indicates a litigious confrontation, showing that the curator is appointed to act against a specific opposing party (here, the guardian Seius) due to a conflict of interest.
  2. 26.1.5.1quod quidem et aduersus eundem accidet — The relative pronoun "quod" takes the entire preceding sentence (one person holding the place of two curators) as its antecedent. "eundem" (the same) refers to "the same guardian", in contrast with "alium tutorem" (another guardian) in the preceding sentence.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.1.5.pr-26.1.5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.1.5.pr-26.1.5.1

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