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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.7.16.pr

Ward's Choice to Accept or Reject Tutor's Loans in Full

Passage 3851 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text discusses whether a pupil must acknowledge claims made by a tutor, presenting the view that the tutor can offer the youth the condition of either accepting or rejecting those transactions in full.

[IDEM libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §26.7.16.prCum quaeritur iudicio tutelae, quae nomina a tutore facta agnoscere pupillus debeat, Marcellus putabat, si tutor pecuniam pupilli mutuam dedisset et suo nomine stipulatus esset, posse dici nomina integra pupillo salua esse, deperdita et male contracta ad tutorem pertinere.
[THE SAME in the sixth book on Sabinus.] When it is questioned in an action on guardianship which claims made by the tutor the pupil ought to acknowledge, Marcellus thought that, if the tutor had lent the pupil's money and had stipulated in his own name, it could be said that the sound claims remain safe for the pupil, while those lost or badly contracted belong to the tutor.
sed uerius se putare posse tutorem eam condicionem adulescenti deferre, ut id quod gessisset tutor in contrahendis nominibus aut in totum agnoscere aut a toto recedere, ita ut perinde esset ac si tutor sibi negotium gessisset.
But he thinks it more correct that the tutor can offer this condition to the youth, that he must either acknowledge in full or withdraw entirely from what the tutor had done in contracting the claims, just as if the tutor had transacted business for himself.
idem est et si pupilli nomine credidisset.
The same is true even if he had lent the money in the name of the pupil.

Notes

  1. §26.7.16.pruerius se putare — The pronoun 'se' refers to the author (Ulpianus) themselves, where a verb of speaking like 'dicit' is implied to introduce the accusative-with-infinitve construction 'se putare'. 'uerius' is the neuter comparative adjective functioning predicatively with 'esse' omitted, meaning 'it is more correct.'
  2. §26.7.16.prut id quod gessisset tutor in contrahendis nominibus aut in totum agnoscere aut a toto recedere — This 'ut' clause explains the content of 'eam condicionem', but instead of subjunctive verbs, infinitives ('agnoscere', 'recedere') are used. This can be understood as expressing the content of the condition (what the youth must do) as verbal nouns, or as an anacoluthon where infinitives stand in apposition to the condition instead of the regular subjunctive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.7.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.7.16.pr

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