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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.7.30.pr

Tutor's Primary Duty to Defend the Pupil in Lawsuits

Passage 3865 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that the primary duty of a tutor is not to leave the pupil legally undefended in a lawsuit.

[IDEM libro uicesimo primo digestorum. ] §26.7.30.prTutoris praecipuum est officium, ne indefensum pupillum relinquat.
[THE SAME, in his twenty-first book of the Digests.]\n\nIt is the primary duty of a tutor not to leave the pupil undefended.

Notes

  1. §26.7.30.prTutoris — Possessive genitive modifying the noun "officium" (duty), or genitive of characteristic meaning "it is the part of a tutor."
  2. §26.7.30.prne... relinquat — A clause with the subjunctive present "relinquat" introduced by "ne", functioning as a noun clause (appositional clause) specifying the content of "officium".
  3. §26.7.30.prindefensum — An adjective meaning "undefended". In a legal context, it refers to the state of the pupil being left without the tutor's representation or defense in a lawsuit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.7.30.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.7.30.pr

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