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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.3.21.pr

Survival of Assigned Actions to Co-Guardians After Judgment

Passage 4015 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that when a ward assigns the action against one guardian to the other guardian condemned for the whole, the assigned action does not perish even if the judgment is later satisfied.

[IDEM libro primo definitionum. ] §27.3.21.prCum pupillus tutelae actione contra tutorem alterum tutori, quem iudex in solidum condemnauit, cessit, quamuis postea iudicatum fiat, tamen actio data non intercidit, quia pro parte condemnati tutoris non tutela reddita, sed nominis pretium solutum uidetur.
[THE SAME, Definitions, Book 1] When a ward has assigned to one guardian, whom the judge condemned in solidum, the action of guardianship against the other guardian, even if the judgment is afterwards satisfied, the action granted nevertheless does not perish, because, in respect of the share of the condemned guardian, it is not deemed that the guardianship has been restored, but that the price of the claim has been paid.

Notes

  1. §27.3.21.prtutelae actione — In the construction of cedere (to assign/yield) with the dative tutori, the object being assigned (the action of guardianship) is expressed in the ablative.
  2. §27.3.21.prnominis — nomen (literally "name") in Roman legal and accounting contexts refers to a "debt" or "claim." Here it refers to the claim against the other guardian.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.3.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.3.21.pr

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