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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.7.19.pr

Accounting Between Co-Curators and Accusation as Suspect

Passage 3854 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a co-curator cannot be compelled to render an account to his co-curator, but can be accused as suspect if he fails to share the administration or acts in bad faith.

[ULPIANUS libro primo responsorum. ] §26.7.19.prActus sui rationem concuratori reddere non esse compellendum: sed nisi cum eo administrationem communicet aut si non ex fide curam gerat, suspectum postulari posse.
[ULPIANUS in the first book of Responses.] A co-curator should not be compelled to render an account of his own acts to his co-curator; but unless he shares the administration with him, or if he does not conduct his care in good faith, he can be accused as suspect.

Notes

  1. §26.7.19.prnon esse compellendum — Since this text is an excerpt summarizing a legal response, it is structured in indirect speech (accusative with infinitive) with the main verb of saying omitted. The implied subject of the infinitive is one of the co-curators.
  2. §26.7.19.prsuspectum — A predicative accusative qualifying the omitted subject of the passive infinitive postulari. It refers to the Roman legal procedure of accusing a suspect guardian or curator (accusatio suspecti tutoris/curatoris) on grounds of untrustworthiness.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.7.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.7.19.pr

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