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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.9.6.pr

Transfer of Action to Ward from Tutor's Agent's Judgment

Passage 3924 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that when a tutor appoints an agent for a lawsuit with the praetor's decree and wins, the action on the judgment is transferred to the ward in the same manner.

[IDEM libro secundo definitionum. ] §26.9.6.prTutor interposito decreto praetoris actorem reliquit.
[THE SAME, from the second book of Definitions.] A tutor, with the intervention of a decree of the praetor, left an agent for the lawsuit.
secundum eum sententia dicta iudicati transfertur ad pupillum actio non minus, quam si tutor optinuisset.
When a judgment has been rendered in his favor, the action on the judgment is transferred to the ward no less than if the tutor himself had prevailed.

Notes

  1. §26.9.6.prsecundum eum — The preposition `secundum` (governing the accusative) in the context of a judgment (`sententia`) is a legal idiom meaning "in favor of" or "on the side of." The pronoun `eum` refers to the preceding `actorem` (the agent in the lawsuit).
  2. §26.9.6.proptinuisset — The verb `optinere` (to obtain, maintain) is used intransitively to mean "to win the case" or "prevail in a lawsuit." Coupled with the conjunction `si` (if), the pluperfect subjunctive expresses a counterfactual or hypothetical past situation: "if the tutor himself had prevailed."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.9.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.9.6.pr

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