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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.2.29.pr

Self-Appointed Tutor and Role as Curator

Passage 3775 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian rules that a person who wrote himself down as a tutor in a testament cannot be a tutor under the senatusconsultum Libonianum, but if the father's intent was clearly expressed by his own hand, he should be appointed as a curator, without being allowed an excuse or being removed as suspect.

[IDEM libro quinto decimo responsorum. ] §26.2.29.prEx sententia senatus consulti Liboniani tutor non erit, qui se testamento pupillo tutorem scripsit: cum autem patris uoluntas hoc ipsum manu sua declarantis ambigua non esset, eum, quamuis alii tutores essent, curatorem dandum respondi, nec admittendam excusationem, quam iure publico habebat, quoniam promisisse uidebatur, nec ut suspectum remoueri.
[THE SAME, from the fifteenth book of Responses.] According to the opinion of the Libonian senatusconsultum, a person who has written himself down in a testament as tutor for a pupil shall not be tutor; however, since the will of the father, who declared this very thing with his own hand, was not ambiguous, I responded that he, although there were other tutors, should be appointed as curator, and that the excuse which he had by public law should not be admitted, since he seemed to have promised, nor should he be removed as suspect.

Notes

  1. §26.2.29.prpatris uoluntas hoc ipsum manu sua declarantis — The genitive present participle "declarantis" modifies "patris", meaning "the will (uoluntas) of the father who declared this very thing (hoc ipsum) with his own hand (manu sua)".
  2. §26.2.29.preum, quamuis alii tutores essent, curatorem dandum respondi, nec admittendam excusationem, quam iure publico habebat, quoniam promisisse uidebatur, nec ut suspectum remoueri — The main verb "respondi" (I responded) governs three accusative-with-infinitive clauses: first, "eum... curatorem dandum [esse]" (that he should be appointed as curator); second, "nec admittendam [esse] excusationem" (and that his excuse should not be admitted); and third, "[eum] nec ut suspectum remoueri" (nor should he be removed as suspect), where "remoueri" is a present passive infinitive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.2.29.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.2.29.pr

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