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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.5.4.pr

Duty of Care and Good Faith for One Acting as Tutor

Passage 4029 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius states that a person who manages affairs as a tutor is bound to exercise the same degree of good faith and diligence as an actual tutor would be required to show.

[POMPONIUS libro sexto decimo ad Quintum Mucium. ] §27.5.4.prQui pro tutore negotia gerit, eandem fidem et diligentiam praestat, quam tutor praestaret.
[POMPONIUS libro sexto decimo ad Quintum Mucium.] He who manages affairs as a tutor guarantees the same good faith and diligence as a tutor would guarantee.

Notes

  1. §27.5.4.prpraestaret — Third-person singular imperfect subjunctive. It expresses a hypothetical or potential obligation, meaning "what a tutor would guarantee (or be expected to guarantee)" if an actual tutor were acting.
  2. §27.5.4.preandem fidem et diligentiam — The nouns fidem (good faith) and diligentiam (diligence) are both feminine accusative singular, and the demonstrative adjective eandem (the same) modifies both. The relative pronoun quam is also feminine singular to agree with them.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.5.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.5.4.pr

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