[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo quinto ad edictum. ] §27.6.11.prFalsus tutor, qui in contrahendo auctor minori duodecim uel quattuordecim annis fuerit, tenebitur in factum actione propter dolum malum.
[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo quinto ad edictum.] A false tutor, who has acted as an authorizer for a minor under twelve or fourteen years of age in contracting, shall be held liable under an action on the facts on account of malicious intent.
§27.6.11.1Cuiuscumque condicionis fuerit uel sui iuris uel alieni, qui dolo malo auctoritatem accommodauit, tenebitur hoc edicto.
Of whatever condition he may be, whether independent or dependent, anyone who has granted authorization with malicious intent shall be held liable under this edict.
§27.6.11.2Sed et si quis filiae familias auctor factus sit ad contrahendum, tenetur.
But also, if anyone has become an authorizer for a daughter of a family for contracting, he is held liable.
idemque iuris est, si ancillae quis tutore auctore credidisset: nam omnibus istis modis propter tutorem decipitur is qui contraxit, quia aliter cum impubere contracturus non fuit, quam si tutoris auctoritas intercessisset.
The same rule of law applies if anyone had extended credit to a female slave under the authorization of a tutor: for in all these ways, the person who contracted is deceived because of the tutor, since otherwise he would not have contracted with the minor unless the authority of a tutor had intervened.
§27.6.11.3Iulianus libro uicesimo primo digestorum tractat, in patrem debeat dari haec actio, qui filiam minorem duodecim annis nuptum dedit.
Julian discusses in the twenty-first book of his Digests whether this action ought to be given against a father who gave his daughter under twelve years of age in marriage.
et magis probat patri ignoscendum esse, qui filiam suam maturius in familiam sponsi perducere uoluit: affectu enim propensiore magis quam dolo malo id uideri fecisse.
And he rather approves that the father should be pardoned, who wished to bring his daughter earlier into the family of her betrothed: for he is deemed to have done this out of a stronger affection rather than out of malicious intent.
§27.6.11.4Quod si intra duodecim annos haec decesserit, cum haberet dotem, putat Iulianus, si dolo malo conuersatus sit is ad quem dos pertinet, posse maritum doli mali exceptione condicentem summouere in casibus, in quibus dotem uel in totum uel in partem, si constabat matrimonium, fuerat lucraturus.
But if she should die under twelve years of age, while having a dowry, Julian thinks that, if the person to whom the dowry belongs has acted with malicious intent, the husband can bar the person bringing the claim by the defense of malicious intent, in those cases in which he would have acquired the dowry either in whole or in part if the marriage had been established.