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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.2.8.pr-26.2.8.3

Conditional and Time-Limited Tutor Appointments and Revocation

Passage 3754 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the revocation of appointed tutors by will or codicil, the validity of conditional and time-limited appointments, and which condition should prevail when multiple ones are written.

[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo quarto ad Sabinum. ] §26.2.8.prTutor datus uetari tutor esse potest uel testamento uel codicillis. §26.2.8.1Sed si sub condicione fuerit tutor datus, deficiente condicione tutor non erit. §26.2.8.2Tutorem autem et a certo tempore dare et usque ad certum tempus licet et sub condicione et usque ad condicionem. §26.2.8.3In tutoris dationem utrum le uissima condicio an no uissima, ut in legato, spectanda est? ut puta 'Titius cum poterit tutor esto'.
[ULPIANUS, from the twenty-fourth book on Sabinus.]\n An appointed tutor can be forbidden to be a tutor either by a will or by codicils.\n But if a tutor has been appointed under a condition, and the condition fails, he will not be a tutor.\n Furthermore, it is permitted to appoint a tutor both from a certain time and up to a certain time, as well as under a condition and until a condition.\n In the appointment of a tutor, should the easiest condition or the latest one be regarded, as in the case of a legacy?
'Titius si na uis ex Asia uenerit tutor esto'. et Iulianus libro uicesimo digestorum recte scripsit nouissimam scripturam esse spectandam.
For example: 'Let Titius be tutor when he is able.' 'Let Titius be tutor if the ship arrives from Asia.' And Julian, in the twentieth book of his Digests, rightly wrote that the latest writing is to be regarded.

Notes

  1. §26.2.8.pruetari tutor esse potest — The passive verb potest is followed by the passive infinitive uetari, which in turn takes the active infinitive esse as its complement. The subject of the entire clause is tutor datus.
  2. §26.2.8.1deficiente condicione — An ablative absolute construction formed by the present participle deficiente and the noun condicione, meaning 'the condition failing' or 'if the condition is not fulfilled.'
  3. §26.2.8.3utrum le uissima condicio an no uissima... spectanda est — A disjunctive question introduced by utrum... an..., asking which of the two differing conditions (the 'easiest/mildest condition' or the 'latest/most recently written condition') should be regarded. Nouissima here means 'latest' or 'last written' in terms of time.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.2.8.pr-26.2.8.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.2.8.pr-26.2.8.3

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