[PAULUS libro trigesimo octauo ad edictum. ] §26.7.12.prCum plures tutelam gerunt, nulli eorum in contutorem actio pupilli nomine datur.
[PAULUS in the thirty-eighth book on the Edict.] When several persons exercise tutelage, an action is not granted to any of them against a co-tutor in the name of the pupil.
§26.7.12.1Quae bona fide a tutore gesta sunt, rata habentur etiam ex rescriptis Traiani et Hadriani: et ideo pupillus rem a tutore legitime distractam uindicare non potest: nam et inutile est pupillis, si administratio eorum non seruatur, nemine scilicet emente.
What is done in good faith by a tutor is held valid, also according to the rescripts of Trajan and Hadrian; and therefore the pupil cannot claim property lawfully sold by the tutor. For it is also disadvantageous to pupils if their administration is not maintained, because, of course, no one would buy.
nec interest, tutor soluendo fuerit nec ne, cum, si bona fide res gesta sit, seruanda sit, si mala fide, alienatio non ualet.
And it does not matter whether the tutor was solvent or not, since, if the transaction was done in good faith, it must be maintained, while if in bad faith, the alienation is void.
§26.7.12.2Nimium est licere tutori respectu existimationis pupilli erogare ex bonis eius, quod ex suis non honestissime fuisset erogaturus.
It is going too far to allow a tutor, out of respect for the reputation of his pupil, to expend from the pupil's estate what he would not have very honorably expended from his own.
§26.7.12.3Cum tutor non rebus dumtaxat, sed etiam moribus pupilli praeponatur, inprimis mercedes praeceptoribus, non quas minimas poterit, sed pro facultate patrimonii, pro dignitate natalium constituet, alimenta seruis libertisque, nonnumquam etiam exteris, si hoc pupillo expediet, praestabit, sollemnia munera parentibus cognatisque mittet.
Since a tutor is appointed not only over the property but also over the conduct of the pupil, he shall, above all, fix the fees for teachers, not at the lowest possible rate, but in proportion to the resources of the estate and the dignity of the pupil's birth; he shall provide sustenance to slaves and freedmen, and sometimes even to strangers, if this is to the advantage of the pupil; he shall send customary gifts to parents and relatives.
sed non dabit dotem sorori alio patre natae, etiamsi aliter ea nubere non potuit: nam etsi honeste, ex liberalitate tamen fit, quae seruanda arbitrio pupilli est.
But he shall not give a dowry to a sister born of a different father, even if she could not otherwise marry; for, although honorable, it is nevertheless an act of liberality, which must be reserved for the discretion of the pupil.
§26.7.12.4Si tutor pecuniam pupillarem credere non potuit, quod non erat cui crederet, pupillo uacabit.
If the tutor was unable to lend out the pupil's money because there was no one to whom he could lend it, the money shall remain idle to the pupil's account.