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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.189.pr

Necessity of Tutor Authority for Ward's Legal Intent

Passage 9249 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States that a ward at a certain age requires the authority of a tutor to express a legally valid will, as acts involving mental judgment necessitate such authority.

[IDEM libro tertio decimo digestorum. ] §50.17.189.prPupillus nec uelle nec nolle in ea aetate nisi adposita tutoris auctoritate creditur: nam quod animi iudicio fit, in eo tutoris auctoritas necessaria est.
[THE SAME, in the thirteenth book of the Digests.] A ward in that age is believed neither to be able to will nor not to will, unless the authority of the tutor is interposed: for in that which is done by the judgment of the mind, the authority of the tutor is necessary.

Notes

  1. §50.17.189.prPupillus ... creditur — A personal passive construction (nominative with infinitive) with the subject pupillus, which governs the infinitives uelle and nolle. Literally, "the ward is believed neither to will nor not to will."
  2. §50.17.189.prnisi adposita tutoris auctoritate — An ablative absolute construction formed by the noun auctoritate and the participle adposita. Accompanied by the conjunction nisi ("unless"), it functions as a conditional clause.
  3. §50.17.189.prnam quod animi iudicio fit, in eo — A relative clause beginning with quod precedes its antecedent in eo in the main clause, functioning as "in that which is done by the judgment of the mind."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.189.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.189.pr

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