Commentaries on the Last Two Titles of the Digest

...which occurs without a mandate. Concerning this, see Law 10, paragraph final, Digest, On being summoned to court; Law 10, paragraph 3, Digest, On judgment fulfilled; Law 11, paragraph 2, Digest, On injuries. The supreme Court of this province, however, sometimes admitted a wife's judicial intervention for an absent husband whose whereabouts could not be had, according to Sandius 1, decisions 5, definition 1. Compare Gail 1, observations 133, at the end. There is also another type of intervention, which they define as the interposition made by a third party for their own interest between litigants: the seat of which is in Law: Often. 63, Digest, On adjudicated matter; chapter "When above," 17, Extravagantes, On sentences and adjudicated matter. Duarenus in title, Digest, On inofficious testaments, chapter 10; Mornacius in law: If suspect, 29, on the same; Argentraeus on the Customs of Brittany, article 236; Gail 1, observations 69 and following; Mynsinger 3, observations 37; Hartmann 5, on actors, observation 10.

7. Ulpian removes women from all civil and public offices, in the said law. Let no one therefore be angry with us if we judge them also incapable of the Scepter and to be prohibited from the Throne; of which it is spoken elsewhere.

8. A minor impubes a child not yet at the age of puberty must also abstain from all civil offices, in the said law, paragraph 1. Ulpian responded almost the same regarding a person of puberty younger than 25 years, Law 8, On municipal offices and honors: "It is not fitting," he says, "for minors to be admitted to administer the Republic before the twenty-fifth year, or to duties that are not of the patrimony, or honors." Unless for a reason, such as if the necessity of a shortage of men urges Law 1, Code, Who and to whom; Law 2, Code, Who by age or profession excuse themselves, book 10, and the benefit of children, Law 2, Digest, On minors, and the indulgence of the prince, Law: Not only. 11, at the end, Digest, On decurions. Cujacius 17, Observations 34; Mornacius in the said law 1. Thus we read that the Consulship was given by the Prince to Honorius, a noble boy, Law: No one. 14, Code, On religion and funeral expenses; law final, Code, On the privileges of those who serve in the sacred palace, book 12. Hieronymus epistle to Demetrianus, on service of virgins. A pious son, a lovable man, a merciful lord, a citizen...