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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.5.16.pr

Retention of Tutors' Status During Absence or Excuse

Passage 3818 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a tutor absent on public business does not lose his status, and that this rule of law also applies to all who are temporarily excused.

[IDEM libro septuagesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §26.5.16.prnec ille desinit tutor esse.
[THE SAME, from the seventy-third book on the Edict.] Nor does that person cease to be a tutor.
quod et in omnibus, qui ad tempus excusantur, iuris est.
This is also the rule of law in the case of all who are excused for a time.

Notes

  1. §26.5.16.prquod ... iuris est — The relative pronoun quod refers to the entire preceding statement (the fact that he remains a tutor). iuris is a partitive genitive (or genitive of characteristic) qualifying quod, meaning literally "what [of law] is...", which translates to "this rule of law is also the case with...".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.5.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.5.16.pr

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