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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.1.7.pr

Poverty as a Ground for Exemption from Guardianship

Passage 3947 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that poverty indeed serves as a ground for excuse from guardianship, provided that one can prove their inability to bear the imposed burden.

[ULPIANUS libro singulari excusationum. ] §27.1.7.prPaupertas sane dat excusationem, si quis imparem se oneri iniuncto possit probare, idque diuorum fratrum rescripto continetur.
[ULPIANUS in his single book on excuses.] Poverty indeed grants an excuse, if anyone can prove that he is unequal to the burden imposed on him, and this is contained in a rescript of the deified brothers.

Notes

  1. 27.1.7.primparem se oneri iniuncto — An accusative-with-infinitve construction serving as the object of the verb 'probare' (consisting of the subject accusative 'se' and the predicate accusative 'imparem', with the copula 'esse' omitted). The adjective 'imparem' (accusative of 'impar', meaning 'unequal to' or 'insufficient for') governs the dative 'oneri' (noun 'onus' meaning 'burden', modified by the perfect participle 'iniuncto').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.1.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.1.7.pr

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