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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.5.4.pr

Tutor's Liability for Lost Testaments Caused by Fraud

Passage 7044 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that if testament tablets in a ward's possession are lost due to the tutor's willful fraud, the interdict is available against the tutor himself rather than the ward.

[PAULUS libro sexagensimo nono ad edictum. ] §43.5.4.prSi sint tabulae apud pupillum et dolo tutoris desierint esse, in ipsum tutorem competit interdictum: aequum enim est ipsum ex delicto suo teneri, non pupillum.
[PAULUS, on the Edict, book sixty-nine.] If the tablets are in the possession of a ward and have ceased to be so through the willful fraud of his tutor, the interdict is available against the tutor himself; for it is equitable that he himself should be held liable for his own wrongdoing, and not the ward.

Notes

  1. 43.5.4.pripsum ex delicto suo teneri, non pupillum — An accusative-and-infinitive clause functioning as the subject of the impersonal expression 'aequum est'. 'ipsum' refers to the tutor ('tutorem'), and the infinitive 'teneri' (to be held liable) is omitted after 'non pupillum'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.5.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.5.4.pr

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