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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.5.27.pr-26.5.27.1

Appointing Tutors across Jurisdictions and for Freedmen

Passage 3829 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text specifies which authorities have the power to appoint tutors for a ward with assets in both Rome and the provinces, and establishes the rule and exceptions for appointing tutors for a freedman.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro secundo iuris epitomatorum. ] §26.5.27.prPupillo, qui tam Romae quam in prouincia facultates habet, rerum quae sunt Romae praetor, prouincialium praeses tutorem dare potest.
[HERMOGENIANUS, from the second book of Epitomes of Law.] For a ward who has assets both in Rome and in the province, the praetor can appoint a tutor for the property which is in Rome, and the governor for the provincial property.
§26.5.27.1Libertino tutores liberti dandi sunt: sed et si ingenuus detur nec se excusauerit, tutor perseuerabit.
For a freedman, freedmen ought to be appointed as tutors; but even if a freeborn person is appointed and does not excuse himself, he shall remain as tutor.

Notes

  1. §26.5.27.prrerum quae sunt Romae praetor, prouincialium praeses — This passage features a highly elliptical parallel structure sharing the final predicate `tutorem dare potest`. Expanded, it reads: `praetor [tutorem] rerum quae sunt Romae [dare potest], [et] praeses [tutorem rerum] prouincialium [dare potest]`. The word `prouincialium` is a genitive plural neuter acting substantively, corresponding to the preceding `rerum` to mean "of provincial properties."
  2. §26.5.27.1tutores liberti dandi sunt — The nominative plurals `tutores` and `liberti` stand together. `liberti` functions as the subject of the passive periphrastic `dandi sunt` ("freedmen ought to be appointed"), while `tutores` acts as a predicative appositive denoting the role ("as tutors").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.5.27.pr-26.5.27.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.5.27.pr-26.5.27.1

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