[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo quinto ad edictum. ] §26.10.1.prHaec clausula et frequens et pernecessaria est: cottidie enim suspecti tutores postulantur.
[ULPIANUS, on the Edict, Book 35] This clause is both frequent and very necessary: for daily suspect tutors are accused.
§26.10.1.1Primum igitur tractemus, unde descendat suspecti crimen et apud quos postulari quis possit suspectus tutor uel curator, deinde quis et a quo et ex quibus causis remouetur, deque poena suspecti.
First, therefore, let us discuss from where the accusation of a suspect tutor arises and before whom one can be accused as a suspect tutor or curator, then who is removed, by whom, and for what causes, and about the punishment of the suspect tutor.
§26.10.1.2Sciendum est suspecti crimen e lege duodecim tabularum descendere.
It must be known that the accusation of a suspect tutor descends from the Law of the Twelve Tables.
§26.10.1.3Damus autem ius remouendi suspectos tutores Romae praetoribus, in prouinciis praesidibus earum.
We give, moreover, the right of removing suspect tutors in Rome to the praetors, and in the provinces to their governors.
§26.10.1.4An autem apud legatum proconsulis suspectus postulari possit, dubium fuit: sed imperator Antoninus cum diuo Seuero Braduae Maurico proconsuli Africae rescripsit posse, quia mandata iurisdictione officium ad eum totum iuris dicundi transit.
But whether a suspect tutor can be accused before the legate of a proconsul was doubtful: but the Emperor Antoninus with the divine Severus wrote back to Bradua Mauricus, proconsul of Africa, that it is possible, because when jurisdiction is delegated, the entire duty of administering justice transfers to him.
ergo et si praetor mandet iurisdictionem, simili modo dicendum est suspectum posse apud eum postulari cui mandata est: cum enim sit in prouincia hoc rescriptum, consequens erit dicere et eum, cui a praetore mandata est iurisdictio, posse de suspecto cognoscere.
Therefore, even if a praetor delegates jurisdiction, it must be said in a similar way that a suspect tutor can be accused before him to whom it has been delegated: for since this rescript was issued in a province, it will be a consequence to say that he also, to whom jurisdiction has been delegated by a praetor, can take cognizance of a suspect tutor.
§26.10.1.5Ostendimus, qui possunt de suspecto cognoscere: nunc uideamus, qui suspecti fieri possunt.
We have shown who can take cognizance of a suspect tutor: now let us see who can become suspect.
et quidem omnes tutores possunt, siue testamentarii sint, siue non sint, sed alterius generis tutores.
And indeed, all tutors can, whether they are testamentary or not, but tutors of another kind.
quare et si legitimus sit tutor, accusari poterit.
Therefore, even if he is a statutory tutor, he can be accused.
quid si patronus? adhuc idem erit dicendum, modo ut meminerimus patrono parcendum.
What if he is a patron? The same will still have to be said, provided that we remember that the patron must be spared.
§26.10.1.6Consequens est, ut uideamus, qui possunt suspectos postulare: et sciendum est quasi publicam esse hanc actionem, hoc est omnibus patere.
It follows that we should see who can accuse suspect tutors: and it must be known that this action is as it were public, that is, it is open to all.
§26.10.1.7Quin immo et mulieres admittuntur, sed hae solae, quae pietate necessitudinis ductae ad hoc procedunt, ut puta mater.
Nay indeed, even women are admitted, but only those who, led by the affection of relationship, proceed to this, as for instance a mother.
nutrix quoque et auia possunt.
A nurse also and a grandmother can.
potest et soror, nam in sorore et rescriptum exstat diui Seueri: et si qua alia mulier fuerit, cuius praetor perpensam pietatem intellexerit non sexus uerecundiam egredientis, sed pietate productam non continere iniuriam pupillorum, admittet eam ad accusationem. praetorem §26.10.1.8Si quis de plebeis ob facta atrociora in tutela admissa fuerit apud praetorem accusatus, remittitur ad praefectum urbis grauiter puniendus.
A sister can too, for in the case of a sister there also exists a rescript of the divine Severus: and if there is any other woman whose carefully weighed affection the praetor has understood—not as one exceeding the modesty of her sex, but as led by affection not to contain the injury of the pupils—he will admit her to the accusation. the praetor If anyone from the plebeians has been accused before the praetor on account of more atrocious acts committed in tutelage, he is sent to the prefect of the city to be severely punished.