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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.7.20.pr

Retroactive Liability for Guardians with Rejected Appeals

Passage 3855 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It rules that a tutor or curator whose appeal is declared groundless or whose excuse is rejected shall be held liable retroactively from the moment they ought to have assumed their administration.

[IDEM libro quinto de officio proconsulis. ] §26.7.20.prTutor uel curator, cuius iniusta appellatio pronuntiata erit cuiusue excusatio recepta non sit, ex quo accedere ad administrationem debuit erit obligatus.
[THE SAME in the fifth book on the Office of Proconsul.] A tutor or curator, whose appeal shall have been pronounced unjust, or whose excuse has not been accepted, shall be liable from the time when he ought to have entered upon the administration.

Notes

  1. §26.7.20.prex quo — An ellipsis for ex eo tempore, quo, meaning "from the time when..." with the antecedent tempus (time) being omitted.
  2. §26.7.20.prcuius... cuiusue — The genitive relative pronoun cuius refers to the antecedent Tutor uel curator, connecting two coordinate relative clauses by means of the enclitic conjunction -ue ("or").

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