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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.1.21.pr-27.1.21.4

Grounds and Limits of Exemption by Lawsuit or Location

Passage 3962 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the grounds and limits of excuse from tutelage based on lawsuits, property location, or senatorial status, as well as the procedure for presenting multiple excuses.

[MARCIANUS libro secundo institutionum. ] §27.1.21.prPropter litem, quam quis cum pupillo habet, excusare se a tutela non potest, nisi forte de omnibus bonis aut plurima parte eorum controuersia sit.
[MARCIAN, from the second book of the Institutes.] On account of a lawsuit which someone has with a pupil, he cannot excuse himself from tutelage, unless perchance there is a dispute concerning all the goods or the greater part of them.
§27.1.21.1Qui se uult excusare, si plures habet excusationes et de quibusdam non probauerit, aliis uti intra tempora non prohibetur.
He who wishes to excuse himself, if he has several excuses and has not proved some of them, is not prohibited from using the others within the time limit.
§27.1.21.2Licet datus tutor ad uniuersum patrimonium datus est, tamen excusare se potest, ne ultra centensimum lapidem tutelam gerat, nisi in eadem prouincia pupilli patrimonium sit: et ideo illarum rerum dabunt tutores in prouincia praesides eius.
Although the appointed tutor has been appointed for the entire patrimony, nevertheless he can excuse himself from exercising the tutelage beyond the hundredth milestone, unless the pupil's patrimony is in the same province; and therefore the governors of that province will appoint tutors for those properties.
§27.1.21.3Nec senatores ultra centensimum lapidem urbis tutelam gerere coguntur.
Nor are senators compelled to exercise tutelage beyond the hundredth milestone from the City.
H §27.1.21.4abenti ergo tutorem tutor datur: sed aliarum rerum, non earundem datur.
Therefore, a tutor is given to one who already has a tutor; but he is given for other properties, not for the same ones.

Notes

  1. §27.1.21.2ne ultra centensimum lapidem tutelam gerat — A subjunctive clause with ne expressing negative purpose or intention, dependent on excusare se potest ("he can excuse himself so as not to exercise [tutelage beyond...]").
  2. §27.1.21.2praesides eius — The pronoun eius refers to the preceding prouincia (the governors of that province), or possibly to pupilli (the governors of his [i.e. the pupil's] province). In either case, it indicates the governors of the region where the properties are located.
  3. §27.1.21.4Habenti ergo tutorem — The dative singular masculine of the present participle habens, serving as the indirect object of datur, with the pupil as the implied subject ("to one who already has a tutor").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.1.21.pr-27.1.21.4. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.1.21.pr-27.1.21.4

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