[IDEM libro nono ad edictum. ] §3.3.43.prMutus et surdus per eum modum qui procedere potest procuratorem dare non prohibentur: forsitan et ipsi dantur non quidem ad agendum, sed ad administrandum.
[THE SAME in the ninth book on the Edict.] Deaf and mute persons are not prohibited from appointing a procurator through such a method as can proceed; perhaps they themselves are also appointed, not indeed for conducting lawsuits, but for administration.
§3.3.43.1Cum quaeretur, an aliqui procuratorem habere liceat, inspiciendum erit, an non prohibeatur procuratorem dare, quia hoc edictum prohibitorium est.
When it is asked whether anyone is allowed to have a procurator, it will have to be inspected whether he is not prohibited from appointing a procurator, because this edict is prohibitory.
§3.3.43.2In popularibus actionibus, ubi quis quasi unus ex populo agit, defensionem ut procurator praestare cogendus non est.
In popular actions, where someone sues as one of the people, he is not to be compelled to provide a defense as a procurator.
§3.3.43.3Is, qui curatorem alicui praesenti petat, non aliter audietur nisi adulto consentiente: quod si absenti, ratam rem eum habiturum necesse habet dare.
He who requests a curator for someone who is present shall not be heard unless the adult consents; but if for an absent person, he must give security that the latter will ratify the matter.
§3.3.43.4Poena non defendentis procuratoris haec est, ut denegetur ei actio.
The penalty for a procurator who does not defend is this, that the action is denied to him.
§3.3.43.5Si procurator agat et praesens sit absentis seruus, Atilicinus ait seruo cauendum, non procuratori.
If a procurator sues and the slave of the absent person is present, Atilicinus says that security must be given to the slave, not to the procurator.
§3.3.43.6Qui non cogitur defendere absentem, tamen si iudicatum solui satisdedit defendendi absentis gratia, cogendum procuratorem iudicium accipere, ne decipiatur is qui satis accepit: nam eos, qui non coguntur rem defendere, post satisdationem cogi.
He who is not compelled to defend an absent person, yet if he has given security for the payment of the judgment for the sake of defending the absent person, the procurator must be compelled to accept the trial, lest he who received the security be deceived; for those who are not compelled to defend a matter are compelled after giving security.
Labeo causa cognita temperandum, et si captio actoris sit propter temporis tractum, iudicium eum accipere cogendum: quod si aut adfinitas dirempta sit aut inimicitiae intercesserint aut bona absentis possideri coeperint
Labeo says that after investigating the circumstances, it should be tempered, and if there is a loss to the plaintiff due to the passage of time, he must be compelled to accept the trial; but if either the affinity has been dissolved, or enmities have intervened, or the goods of the absent person have begun to be possessed...