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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.8.47.pr-4.8.47.1

Arbitration with Pupil Heir or Insane Party

Passage 869 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julianus discusses the necessity of a tutor's authority when a party dies leaving a pupil as heir under a conditional submission, and begins to address the case where a party becomes insane.

[IULIANUS libro quarto digestorum. ] §4.8.47.prSi compromissum ita factum est, ut praesente utroque aut heredibus eorum arbiter sententiam dicat et alter ex litigatoribus decesserit pupillo herede relicto, non aliter uidetur sententia dicta esse, nisi tutoris auctoritas interposita fuerit. §4.8.47.1Item si alter ex compromittentibus furere coeperit,
[JULIANUS in his fourth book of the Digests.]\n If a submission to arbitration has been made in such a way that the arbitrator is to pronounce his award in the presence of both parties or their heirs, and one of the litigants dies leaving a pupil as his heir, the award is not deemed to have been pronounced unless the authority of the tutor has been interposed.\n Likewise, if one of those who entered into the submission begins to be insane,

Notes

  1. 4.8.47.prpraesente utroque aut heredibus eorum — The singular present participle `praesente` agrees with the singular pronoun `utroque` (each of the two). It is connected by `aut` to the plural noun `heredibus`, forming an ablative absolute construction: 'in the presence of either party or their heirs'.
  2. 4.8.47.pruidetur sententia dicta esse — This is a personal construction (nominative with infinitive) where the subject `sententia` (the award) is the subject of the passive verb `uidetur`, accompanied by the infinitive `dicta esse`, rather than an impersonal construction ('it seems that...').
  3. 4.8.47.1furere coeperit — This clause consists only of a conditional clause (`si...`), and its apodosis (consequent clause) is continued in the next fragment (§4.8.48).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.8.47.pr-4.8.47.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.47.pr-4.8.47.1

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