14 The same rule is to be observed with soldiers, who, even
though they desire it, may not be admitted to the office of
guardian: 15 and finally grammarians, rhetoricians, and
physicians at Rome, and those who follow these callings in
their own country and are within the number fixed by law, are
exempted from being guardians or curators.

16 If a person who has several grounds of excuse wishes to
obtain exemption, and some of them are not allowed, he is
not prohibited from alleging others, provided he does this
within the time prescribed. Those desirous of excusing them-
selves do not appeal, but ought to allege their grounds of
excuse within fifty days next after they hear of their appoint-
ment, whatever the form of the latter, and whatever kind of
guardians they may be, if they are within a hundred miles
of the place where they were appointed: if they live at a
distance of more than a hundred miles, they are allowed a day
for every twenty miles, and thirty days in addition, but this time,
as Scaevola has said, must never be so reckoned as to amount
to less than fifty days. 17 A person appointed guardian is
deemed to be appointed to the whole patrimony; 18 and after
he has once acted as guardian he cannot be compelled against
his will to become the same person's curator -- not even if the
father who appointed him testamentary guardian added in the
will that he made him curator, too, as soon as the ward reached
fourteen years of age -- this having been decided by a rescript
of the Emperors Severus and Antoninus. 19 Another rescript
of the same emperors settled that a man is entitled to be ex-
cused from becoming his own wife's curator, even after inter-
meddling with her affairs. 20 No man is discharged from the