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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §27.9.12.pr

Tutor's Subrogation and the Senate Decree

Passage 4071 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a tutor does not violate the senate decree restricting the alienation of a pupil's property when they pay the creditor of the pupil's father in order to succeed to that creditor's position.

[MARCIANUS libro singulari ad formulam hypothecariam. ] §27.9.12.prNon fit contra senatus consultum, si cuius tutor creditori patris pupilli exsoluit, ut eius loco succedat.
[MARCIANUS, in the single book on the Hypothecary Formula.] It is not contrary to the senate decree if the tutor of a pupil pays the creditor of the pupil's father in order that he may succeed to that creditor's place.

Notes

  1. §27.9.12.prcuius tutor creditori patris pupilli exsoluit — The genitive relative pronoun `cuius` is used here after `si` with an indefinite force (equivalent to `alicuius`), corresponding with the later `pupilli` to mean "the tutor of some pupil." `pupilli` itself is a genitive modifying `patris` ("of the father of the pupil").
  2. §27.9.12.prut eius loco succedat — The conjunction `ut` introduces a clause of purpose ("in order that"). The subject of `succedat` (from `succedere`, to succeed or step into the place of) is the `tutor`, and the genitive pronoun `eius` refers back to `creditori`. Together it expresses the legal intent of subrogation: "in order that the tutor may succeed to the place of that creditor."

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