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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.10.6.pr

Security and Prolonged Plunder by Suspect Tutors

Passage 3933 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Quoting Callistratus, it explains that giving security does not eliminate a dishonest tutor's ill intent, but rather provides an opportunity to prolong the plunder of the pupil's estate.

[CALLISTRATUS libro quarto de cognitionibus. ] §26.10.6.prquia satisdatio propositum tutoris maleuolum non mutat, sed diutius grassandi in re familiari facultatem praestat.
[CALLISTRATUS, On Judicial Enquiries, Book 4.] for the giving of security does not change the evil intent of a tutor, but rather affords an opportunity of plundering the family property for a longer time.

Notes

  1. §26.10.6.prquia — This quia clause explains the reason for the conclusion in the preceding fragment (§26.10.5.pr from Ulpian's Disputations) that a co-tutor who failed to accuse his colleague on the ground that security had been given should not be tolerated. This highlights how the compilers logically connected excerpts from different jurists (Ulpian and Callistratus).
  2. §26.10.6.prdiutius grassandi in re familiari — grassandi is the genitive gerund of the deponent verb grassor, meaning to act lawlessly or plunder, and modifies the subsequent noun facultatem. The prepositional phrase in re familiari (in the family estate) denotes the domain of the action expressed by grassandi.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.10.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.10.6.pr

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