[ULPIANUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §27.10.1.prLege duodecim tabularum prodigo interdicitur bonorum suorum administratio, quod moribus quidem ab initio introductum est.
[ULPIANUS, in the first book on Sabinus.] By the Law of the Twelve Tables, a spendthrift is interdicted from the administration of his own property, a practice which indeed was introduced by custom from the very beginning.
sed solent hodie praetores uel praesides, si talem hominem inuenerint, qui neque tempus neque finem expensarum habet, sed bona sua dilacerando et dissipando profudit, curatorem ei dare exemplo furiosi: et tamdiu erunt ambo in curatione, quamdiu uel furiosus sanitatem uel ille sanos mores receperit: quod si euenerit, ipso iure desinunt esse in potestate curatorum.
But today praetors or governors, if they find such a person who has neither time nor limit for his expenses, but has squandered his property by tearing it to pieces and dissipating it, are accustomed to appoint a curator for him after the example of an insane person. And both shall remain under curatorship for as long as either the insane person recovers his sanity or the other recovers sound morals. If this should happen, they cease to be under the power of curators by operation of law.
§27.10.1.1Curatio autem eius, cui bonis interdicitur, filio negabatur permittenda: sed extat diui Pii rescriptum filio potius curationem permittendam in patre furioso, si tam probus sit.
Furthermore, the curatorship of one who is interdicted from his property used to be denied to be entrusted to a son; but there exists a rescript of the divine Pius that curatorship should rather be entrusted to a son in the case of an insane father, if the son is of sufficiently good character.