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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.1.11.pr

Exemption from New and Ongoing Guardianships

Passage 3951 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that those who have grounds for excuse should not only be excused from entering upon a new tutelage, but should also be released from one already begun.

[PAULUS libro singulari de excusatione tutorum. ] §27.1.11.pret non tantum ne incipiant, sed et a coepta excusari debent.
[PAULUS in his single book on the excusal of tutors.] And they ought to be excused not only so that they do not begin, but also from a tutelage already begun.

Notes

  1. §27.1.11.prne incipiant — A ne-clause with the subjunctive present (incipiant) depending on the verb excusari, meaning "to be excused so that they do not begin [the tutelage]," representing a prior excuse.
  2. §27.1.11.pra coepta — The feminine noun tutela (tutelage) is omitted; coepta is the perfect passive participle of coepisse in the feminine ablative singular, which, combined with the preposition a, means "from a tutelage already begun."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.1.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.1.11.pr

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