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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.1.8.pr

Prohibition of Tutors Rejecting Bonorum Possessio

Passage 5717 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that a tutor is not allowed to repudiate the possession of goods falling to a ward, based on the distinction between the authority to petition and the authority to repudiate.

[PAULUS libro octauo ad Plautium. ] §37.1.8.prTutor autem bonorum possessionem pupillo competentem repudiare non potest, quia tutori petere permissum est, non etiam repudiare.
[PAULUS, book 8 on Plautius.] However, a tutor cannot repudiate the possession of goods falling to a ward, because a tutor is permitted to petition for it, but not also to repudiate it.

Notes

  1. §37.1.8.prpupillo competentem — competentem is the present participle in the accusative feminine singular, modifying bonorum possessionem. The dative pupillo is the complement of the intransitive verb competere (to fall to, belong to).
  2. §37.1.8.prpetere permissum est, non etiam repudiare — The infinitive petere acts as the subject, with tutori as the dative complement. permissum est is the perfect passive impersonal construction (or predicate with the infinitive as subject). In the second clause, permissum est is understood implicitly with non etiam repudiare.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.1.8.pr

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