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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.5.18.pr

Inquiry on Senators in Appointing a Tutor

Passage 3820 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text states that in appointing a tutor upon investigation, even a senator is subject to inquiry, as confirmed by a rescript of Severus.

[IDEM libro sexagesimo primo ad edictum. ] §26.5.18.prIn dando tutore ex inquisitione et in eum inquiritur, qui senator est: et ita Seuerus rescripsit.
[THE SAME, from the sixty-first book on the Edict.] In appointing a tutor upon investigation, inquiry is also made into one who is a senator; and Severus issued a rescript to this effect.

Notes

  1. §26.5.18.prdando tutore — A gerundive construction in the ablative, where the gerundive dando agrees with the noun tutore. Used with the preposition in to express the context "in appointing a tutor".
  2. §26.5.18.pret — Used here not as a coordinating conjunction, but adverbially before the prepositional phrase in eum to mean "also" or "even".
  3. §26.5.18.prinquiritur — The third-person singular passive of the verb inquirere, used impersonally. It means "inquiry is made" and takes the prepositional phrase in eum as its complement.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.5.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.5.18.pr

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