[UENULEIUS libro sexto stipulationum. ] §26.7.51.prSi duo pluresue tutores tutelam administrent, in fideiussorem quidem in solidum per quemlibet eorum committitur stipulatio: at si inter eos diuisa sit tutela regionibus, quod plerumque fit, et alius urbica negotia, alius peregrina administraret, tunc ex substantia cuiusque rei aut committi contra fideiussorem stipulationem aut non committi dicemus: nam licet omnes tutores sint et tutelam gerant, tamen cum quis de ea re, quae extra suam regionem erit, experiri uel ad iudicium uocari coeperit, perinde non committitur stipulatio, atque si ei administratio tutelae permissa non esset: quantum enim facit in totum denegata, tantundem ualet, si in ea re de qua agitur denegata sit.
[VENULEIUS, from the sixth book on Stipulations.] If two or more tutors administer a guardianship, a stipulation is indeed committed for the whole amount against the surety through any one of them; but if the guardianship has been divided between them by regions, as is often done, and one administers urban business, another foreign business, then we shall say that, according to the substance of each matter, the stipulation against the surety is either committed or not committed. For although all are tutors and carry on the guardianship, yet when anyone begins to litigate or be summoned to court concerning a matter which is outside his own region, the stipulation is not committed, just as if the administration of the guardianship had not been permitted to him; for as much as a total denial of administration effects, just so much is valid if it is denied in the matter under discussion.