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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.6.4.pr

Exemption from Duties and Guardianship at Age Seventy

Passage 8733 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian rules that the exemption of those older than seventy years from guardianships and personal duties requires having completed the seventieth year, not merely having entered it.

[IDEM libro quinto. ] §50.6.4.prMaiores septuaginta annis a tutelis et muneribus personalibus uacant.
[THE SAME, from the fifth book.] Those who are older than seventy years are exempt from guardianships and personal duties.
sed qui ingressus est septuagensimum annum, nondum egressus, hac uacatione non utetur, quia non uidetur maior esse septuaginta annis qui annum agit septuagensimum.
But he who has entered his seventieth year, and has not yet completed it, shall not enjoy this exemption, because a person who is passing his seventieth year is not considered to be older than seventy years.

Notes

  1. 50.6.4.prseptuaginta annis — An ablative of comparison depending on the comparative `maiores`, meaning "older than seventy years."
  2. 50.6.4.prqui annum agit septuagensimum — Positioned at the end of the sentence, this clause functions as the grammatical subject of the preceding `non uidetur`. The phrase `annum agere` means "to pass or spend a particular year of one's life"; here, passing the seventieth year (i.e., being 69 years old and working toward 70) does not qualify one as being "older than seventy."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.6.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.6.4.pr

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