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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.6.10.pr

Disadvantages of Expiration and Usucapion under a False Tutor

Passage 4040 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that if an action is brought under a false tutor's authority and meanwhile the time limit expires or usucapion occurs, the ward must bear the disadvantages just as if a true tutor had authorized it.

[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §27.6.10.prSi falso tutore auctore actum sit et interea dies actionis exierit aut res usucapta sit, omnia incommoda perinde sustinere debet, ac si illo tempore uero tutore auctore egisset.
[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale.] If a legal action was brought under the authorization of a false tutor, and in the meantime the period for the action has expired or property has been acquired by usucapion, [the ward] must bear all the disadvantages just as if he had brought the action at that time under the authorization of a true tutor.

Notes

  1. 27.6.10.prfalso tutore auctore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of two nouns (tutore and auctore), meaning 'with a false tutor acting as authorizer'. The phrase 'uero tutore auctore' later in the sentence shares the same structure.
  2. 27.6.10.practum sit ... egisset — A contrast between the impersonal passive (actum sit) and the active pluperfect subjunctive (egisset) of the verb agere. In this legal context, it refers to bringing an action. The implied subject of both the main clause (sustinere debet) and egisset is understood to be the ward (pupillus).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.6.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.6.10.pr

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