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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.1.40.pr-27.1.40.1

Resignation from Guardianship due to Illness or Poverty

Passage 3981 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text provides that even after undertaking a guardianship, a person can resign or receive an exemption if they suffer from physical or mental disabilities, or from poverty that is unequal to the burden of guardianship.

[PAULUS libro secundo sententiarum. ] §27.1.40.prPost susceptam tutelam caecus aut surdus aut mutus aut furiosus aut ualetudinarius deponere tutelam potest.
[PAULUS, from the second book of Sentences.] After having undertaken a guardianship, a person who is blind, deaf, mute, insane, or chronically ill can lay down the guardianship.
§27.1.40.1Paupertas, quae operi et oneri tutelae impar est, solet tribuere uacationem.
Poverty, which is unequal to the labor and burden of guardianship, is accustomed to grant an exemption.

Notes

  1. §27.1.40.prPost susceptam tutelam — The perfect passive participle 'susceptam' agrees with the noun 'tutelam' after the preposition 'post', forming an 'ab urbe condita' construction, meaning 'after the undertaking of the guardianship' or 'after having undertaken the guardianship'.
  2. §27.1.40.1operi et oneri tutelae — The genitive 'tutelae' depends on both coordinate dative nouns 'operi' and 'oneri', meaning 'the labor and burden of guardianship'. These datives serve as the complement to the adjective 'impar' (unequal to).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.1.40.pr-27.1.40.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.1.40.pr-27.1.40.1

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