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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.9.11.pr

Governor's Judicial Inquiry for Sale of Wards' Land

Passage 4070 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section prescribes that the governor of the province must permit the sale of estates belonging to minors under twenty-five only after investigating the case, and that the same requirement applies to sales made by curators of insane persons, spendthrifts, or others.

[IDEM libro tertio de officio proconsulis. ] §27.9.11.prSi praedia minoris uiginti quinque annis distrahi desiderentur, causa cognita praeses prouinciae debet id permittere.
[THE SAME, in the third book on the Office of Proconsul.] If it is desired that the estates of a person under twenty-five years of age be sold, the governor of the province must permit it after an inquiry into the case.
idem seruari oportet et si furiosi uel prodigi uel cuiuscumque alterius praedia curatores uelint distrahere.
The same rule must be observed also if curators wish to sell the estates of an insane person, a spendthrift, or any other person whatsoever.

Notes

  1. §27.9.11.prminoris uiginti quinque annis — minoris is the genitive singular of the comparative adjective minor (lesser), modifying praedia (estates) as a possessive genitive. uiginti quinque annis (twenty-five years) is an ablative of comparison. Together they mean 'of a person under twenty-five years of age.'
  2. §27.9.11.prcausa cognita — An ablative absolute composed of the noun causa and the perfect participle cognita of cognoscere. In Roman law, it denotes not merely factual awareness, but the fulfillment of a legal requirement of 'judicial inquiry' or 'investigation into the merits' (causae cognitio) by the magistrate or judge.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §27.9.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:27.9.11.pr

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