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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.8.3.pr

Action Against Magistrates by a Tutor Free from Fault

Passage 4053 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julian states that if the tutor is free from fault regarding the co-tutor's lack of security, it is equitable to grant him an action against the magistrates.

[IULIANUS libro uicesimo primo digestorum. ] §27.8.3.prQuod si tutor ab hac parte culpa uacet, non erit iniquum aduersus magistratus actionem ei dari.
[JULIAN, in the twenty-first book of the Digest.] But if the tutor is free from fault in this respect, it will not be inequitable for an action against the magistrates to be given to him.

Notes

  1. 27.8.3.prab hac parte — Refers to the ground of imputation discussed in the preceding section (27.8.2.pr), namely, knowing that the co-tutor had not given security and failing to exact it or to report him as suspect.
  2. 27.8.3.prculpa uacet — The verb uaco taking the ablative (culpa) means "to be free from" or "to lack." The present subjunctive (vacet) is used in the conditional clause (si) to express a hypothetical condition.
  3. 27.8.3.practionem ei dari — An accusative with infinitive clause where actionem is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive dari. The clause functions as the subject of non erit iniquum ("it will not be inequitable that...").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.8.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.8.3.pr

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