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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.10.12.pr

Barring Curator's Defense against Slave Reporting Fraud

Passage 3939 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In the investigation of a suspected curator, there is no ground for the curator to raise an objection to prevent the praetor from being informed of frauds by a slave of the pupil.

[IULIUS AQUILA libro responsorum. ] §26.10.12.prNihil proponi, cur praescribere curator possit in cognitione suspecti, quo minus religio praetoris a pupillari seruo detegente fraudes instruatur.
[JULIUS AQUILA, Opinions.] There is no reason proposed why a curator, in an investigation of a suspected person, should be able to interpose an objection to prevent the conscientiousness of the praetor from being informed by a slave of the pupil who discloses the frauds.

Notes

  1. §26.10.12.prNihil proponi — An accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction, expressing a legal opinion or determination: 'nothing is proposed' or 'there is no ground presented'. Here, proponere means to put forward or allege a legal ground.
  2. §26.10.12.prpraescribere — Used intransitively as a legal technical term meaning 'to interpose a preliminary objection' or 'to plead a prescription/exception'.
  3. §26.10.12.prquo minus — A conjunction introducing the subjunctive (here, the present passive 'instruatur'), used after expressions of hindering or preventing (implied in 'praescribere', to block by objection), meaning 'to prevent [the praetor's conscientiousness] from being informed'.
  4. §26.10.12.prreligio praetoris — Literally 'the religion of the praetor', but in a legal context, it refers to the 'conscientiousness', 'judicial integrity', or 'official duty' of the praetor to investigate the truth and administer justice properly.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.10.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.10.12.pr

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