Epistularum libri
Ex libro V
Dig. 27,5,3Iavolenus libro quinto epistularum. Quaero, an is qui, cum tutor testamento datus esset et id ipsum ignoraret, pro tutore negotia pupilli gesserit, quasi tutor an quasi pro tutore negotia gesserit, teneatur. respondit: non puto teneri quasi tutorem, quia scire quoque se tutorem esse debet, ut eo affectu negotia gerat, quo tutor gerere debeat.
Javolenus, Epistles, Book V. I ask whether he who has been appointed a guardian by will, but is ignorant of the fact, can be held liable for attending to the business of the ward as an actual guardian, or for transacting said business as one acting in the capacity of a guardian. I answered that I do not think that he can be held liable as an actual guardian, because he must know that he is the guardian, in order to discharge the duties of the office with the same spirit with which a guardian should act.