Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.7.49.pr

Extraordinary Punishment for Insolvent Negligent Tutors

Passage 3884 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section provides that a tutor who willfully neglects to invest the pupil's money or purchase land will face extraordinary punishment if he lacks the financial capacity to compensate for the loss.

[PAULUS libro secundo sententiarum. ] §26.7.49.prOb faenus pupillaris pecuniae per contumaciam non exercitum aut fundorum omissam comparationem tutor, si non ad damnum resarciendum idoneus est, extra ordinem coercebitur.

[PAULUS, from the second book of Opinions.] A tutor, on account of not having put out the pupil's money at interest through contumacy, or having omitted the purchase of lands, if he is not solvent enough to make good the loss, shall be punished extra ordinem.

Notes

26.7.49.prfaenus ... non exercitum aut fundorum omissam comparationem — The perfect participles exercitum and omissam agree with the accusative nouns faenus and comparationem, respectively, both governed by the preposition ob. This is the 'ab urbe condita' construction (noun + participle functioning as a gerundive), meaning 'the failure to put out the money at interest, or the omission of the purchase of lands'.
26.7.49.pridoneus — The adjective idoneus, which usually means 'suitable' or 'fit', is used here in its specific legal sense to mean 'solvent' or 'having sufficient financial capacity' to make good the loss (ad damnum resarciendum).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.7.49.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.7.49.pr

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