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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.6.1.pr

Mothers Requesting Tutors and Curators for Sons

Passage 3832 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a mother's initiative in requesting tutors for her son is recognized, whereas it is generally not recognized for curators, except in specific cases where a curator must be requested for a child under puberty.

[MODESTINUS libro septimo differentiarium. ] §26.6.1.prMatris sollicitudo in petendis filio tutoribus, non etiam curatoribus obseruatur, nisi quo casu impuberi curator petendus est.
[MODESTINUS, from the seventh book of Differences.] A mother's concern in requesting tutors for her son is taken into account, but not also in the case of curators, except in the case where a curator must be requested for a person under puberty.

Notes

  1. §26.6.1.prin petendis filio tutoribus — A gerundive construction where the gerundive petendis agrees with the noun tutoribus, serving as the object of the preposition in ("in requesting tutors"). filio is a dative of advantage ("for the son"). This grammatical structure also implicitly applies to the subsequent phrase non etiam curatoribus (i.e., "not also in requesting curators").
  2. §26.6.1.prquo casu — An ablative of circumstance where the relative adjective qui (quo) agrees with casu. Combined with nisi, it expresses an exception: "except in the case where...".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.6.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.6.1.pr

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