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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.1.9.pr

Criminal Penalties for Fraudulent Guardianship

Passage 3737 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Defines that extraordinary criminal punishment shall be inflicted upon those who illicitly obtain a guardianship, conspire to appoint an unfit guardian, deliberately understate an estate, or fraudulently alienate the property of pupils.

[MARCIANUS libro tertio institutionum. ] §26.1.9.prIn eos extra ordinem animaduertitur,qui probentur nummis datis tutelam occupasse uel pretio accepto operam dedisse, ut non idoneus tutor daretur, uel consulto in edendo patrimonio quantitatem minuerit, uel euidenti fraude pupillorum bona alienasset.
[MARCIANUS, Institutes, Book 3.] Extraordinary punishment is inflicted upon those who are proved to have seized a guardianship by giving money, or to have exerted themselves for a price to have an unfit guardian appointed, or who have intentionally diminished the amount in declaring the estate, or have alienated the property of pupils with evident fraud.

Notes

  1. §26.1.9.prextra ordinem animaduertitur — Refers to criminal punishment inflicted under the extraordinary procedure (cognitio extra ordinem), outside the ordinary course of civil or criminal trials (ordo iudiciorum).
  2. §26.1.9.prqui probentur ... minuerit ... alienasset — There is a shift in grammatical number from the plural 'probentur' in the first clause to the singular 'minuerit' and 'alienasset' in the subsequent parallel clauses, even though they all relate to the relative pronoun 'qui'. This is a common stylistic variation (anacoluthon) in legal texts when shifting focus from a plural class to individual actors.

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