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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.5.1.pr-26.5.1.2

Authority of Provincial Governors to Appoint Tutors

Passage 3803 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage defines who has the authority to appoint a tutor—including proconsuls, praesides, the prefect of Egypt, temporary administrators, and legates—and restricts this authority to wards belonging to or residing in the same province.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo nono ad Sabinum. ] §26.5.1.prSiue proconsul siue praeses siue etiam praefectus Aegypti siue proconsulatum optineat prouinciae uel temporis causa praeside defuncto uel quia ipsi prouincia regenda commissa est, tutorem dare poterit.
[ULPIAN, from the thirty-ninth book on Sabinus.] Whether it be a proconsul, a praeses, or even the praefect of Egypt, or one who holds the proconsular power of a province—whether temporarily because of the death of the governor, or because the government of the province has been entrusted to him—he will be able to appoint a tutor.
§26.5.1.1Legatus quoque proconsulis ex oratione diui Marci tutorem dare potest.
A deputy (legatus) of a proconsul can also appoint a tutor, in accordance with the address (oratio) of the Divine Marcus.
§26.5.1.2Quod autem permittitur tutorem dare prouinciae praesidi, eis tantum permittitur, qui sunt eiusdem prouinciae uel ibidem domicilium habent.
However, the permission granted to the governor of a province to appoint a tutor is granted only in respect of those who belong to the same province or have their domicile there.

Notes

  1. §26.5.1.prsiue proconsulatum optineat — The present subjunctive optineat introduces a general or hypothetical condition. The two subsequent coordinate clauses introduced by uel (the ablative absolute praeside defuncto and the quia clause) explain the alternative circumstances under which one might hold this proconsular authority.
  2. §26.5.1.2eis tantum permittitur, qui sunt eiusdem prouinciae — The dative pronoun eis refers to the wards (those for whom a tutor is to be appointed). This syntax clarifies that the governor's jurisdiction to appoint tutors is restricted to individuals who either belong to the same province or have their domicile there.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.5.1.pr-26.5.1.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.5.1.pr-26.5.1.2

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