TITULUS VIGESIMUS-SECUNDUS. QUIBUS MODIS TUTELA FINITUR. C. v. T. 60. De pubertate. PUPILLI, pupillæque, cum puberes esse cœperint, à tutelâ liberantur. Pubertatem autem veteres quidem non solùm ex annis, sed etiam ex habitu corporis, in masculis æstimari volebant. Nostra autem majestas, dignum esse castitate nostrorum temporum existimans, benè putavit, quod in fœminis etiam antiquis impudicum esse visum est, id est, inspectionem habitudinis corporis, hoc etiam in masculos extendere: et idco, nostrâ sanctâ constitutione promulgatâ pubertatem in masculis post decimum quartum annum completum illicò initium accipere disposuimus: antiquitatis norman in fœminis benè positam in suo ordine relinquentes, ut post duodecim annos completos, viri potentes esse credantur. Pupils, both male and female, are freed from tutelage, when they arrive at puberty. The ancients judged of puberty in males, not by years only, but also by the habit of their bodies. But our imperial majesty, regarding the purity of the present times, hath thought it proper, that the same decency, which was ever observed towards females, should be extended also to males: and therefore, by our sacred constitution, we have enacted, that puberty in males should be reputed to commence immediately after the completion of their fourteenth year. But, in relation to females, we leave that wholesome and ancient rule of law unaltered by which they are esteemed marriageable after the twelfth year is completed. De mente captis, surdis, &c. IV. Sed et mente captis, et surdis, et mutis, et illis, que perpetuo morbo laborant, (quia rebus suis superesse non possunt,) curatores dandi sunt. § 4. Persons deprived of their intellects, deaf, mute, or subject to any continual disorder, since they are unable to manage their own affairs, must be placed under curators. De pupillis. V. Interdum autem et pupilli curatores accipiunt; ut puta, si legitimus tutor non sit idoneus: quoniam habenti tutorem tutor dari non potest. Item, si testamento datus tutor, vel à prætore aut præside, idoneus non sit ad administrationem, nec tamen fraudulenter nogotia administret, solet ei cu rator adjungi. Item loco tutorum, qui non in perpetuum, sed ad tempus â tutelà excusantur, solent curatores dari. 5. Sometimes even pupils receive curators; as when the legal tutor is unqualified: for a tutor must not be given to him, who already has a tutor. Also, if a tutor by testament, or appointed by a prætor, or the goverenor of a province, appears afterwards incapable of executing his trust, it is usual, although he is guilty of no fraud, to appoint a curator to be joined with him. It is also usual to assign curators in the place of tutors excused for a time only. De constituendo actore. VI. Quod si tutor vel adversâ valetudine, vel aliâ necessitate, impediatur, quo minus negotia pupilli administrare possit, et pupillus vel absit, vel infans sit, quem velit actorem, periculo ipsius tutoris, prætor, vel qui provinciæ præerit, decreto constituet. § 6. If a tutor, by illness or any other necessary impediment, should be disabled from the execution of his office, and his pupil should be absent, or an infant, then the prætor, or governor of the province shall decree any person, whom the tutor approves of to be the pupil's agent, on the responsibility of the tutor. |