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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.8.18.pr

Authorization for Delegation and Tutor's Self-Release

Passage 3914 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the principle of a pupil delegating a debtor with the tutor's authorization, and the exception when the tutor owes the pupil, where authorization is invalid to prevent self-release.

[IDEM libro primo ad Plautium. ] §26.8.18.prPotest pupillus tutore auctore debitorem suum Titio delegare: sed cum tutor debet pupillo, dicendum est neque delegari eum neque procuratorem aduersus tutorem dari ipso tutore auctore posse, quia futurum sit, ut auctoritate sua liberetur.
[THE SAME, in the first book on Plautius.]\n\nA pupil can, with the authorization of his tutor, delegate his debtor to Titius; but when the tutor owes the pupil, it must be said that neither can he be delegated nor can a procurator be appointed against the tutor with the authorization of the tutor himself, because the result would be that he would be released by his own authorization.

Notes

  1. §26.8.18.prtutore auctore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of two nouns, meaning "with the tutor as authorizer," due to the absence of a present participle for the verb "to be."
  2. §26.8.18.prdicendum est — An impersonal gerundive construction expressing necessity or obligation, meaning "it must be said" or "it should be understood."
  3. §26.8.18.prfuturum sit — 'futurum sit' is a periphrastic future expression equivalent to 'fore ut', standing in the subjunctive due to the subordinate 'quia' clause. The following 'ut' clause functions as a noun clause of result, meaning "the result would be that he is released."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.8.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.8.18.pr

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