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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.4.10.pr-26.4.10.1

Female Degree of Kinship and Ineligibility of the Deaf and Mute

Passage 3801 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the principle that the closer degree of a female does not obstruct a male agnate's statutory tutelage, and the rule that deaf and mute persons cannot be tutors.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro secundo iuris epitomarum. ] §26.4.10.prAdgnato propior femina, quo minus sit impuberis adgnati tutor, non obicitur, ideoque patruus sororem consanguineam habentis fratris filii legitimus erit tutor, nec amita patruo magno uel matertera fratris filiis ne sint tutores obstat.
[HERMOGENIANUS, from the second book of the Epitome of Law.] The fact that a female is closer in degree than a male agnate is not raised as an objection to prevent him from being the tutor of an impuberate agnate; therefore, the paternal uncle will be the statutory tutor of a brother's son who has a sister of the same blood, nor does a paternal aunt stand in the way of a great-uncle, or a maternal aunt in the way of a brother's sons, to prevent them from being tutors.
§26.4.10.1Surdus et mutus nec legitimi tutores esse possunt, cum nec testamento nec alio modo utiliter dari possint.
A deaf person and a mute person cannot even be statutory tutors, since they cannot be validly appointed either by will or in any other manner.

Notes

  1. §26.4.10.prAdgnato propior femina — The dative adgnato depends on the comparative propior, meaning "a female closer than the (male) agnate." This female is the subject of non obicitur ("is not raised as an objection"), while the subject of the subjunctive sit in the following quominus clause ("lest he be the tutor...") is the male agnate implied by the dative adgnato.
  2. §26.4.10.prsororem consanguineam habentis fratris filii — The genitive singular present participle habentis modifies fratris filii ("of the brother's son"), and the accusative sororem consanguineam is the object of habentis. The whole phrase means "of the brother's son who has a sister of the same blood," modifying tutor.
  3. §26.4.10.prnec amita patruo magno uel matertera fratris filiis ne sint tutores obstat — The verb obstat is singular but has both amita and matertera as its subjects. The datives patruo magno and fratris filiis depend on obstat and simultaneously function as the implied subjects of the subjunctive clause ne sint tutores ("lest they be tutors").
  4. §26.4.10.1cum nec testamento nec alio modo utiliter dari possint — The conjunction cum expresses cause ("since") and governs the subjunctive possint. The passive infinitive dari here means "to be given" or "to be appointed" as a tutor.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.4.10.pr-26.4.10.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.4.10.pr-26.4.10.1

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