- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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This section determines the ownership of acquisitions made by a slave under usufruct, and notes that Labeo distinguishes cases where the slave is appointed heir or receives a legacy based on whose account it occurs.
[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad Sabinum.]
[THE SAME in the seventeenth book on Sabinus.]
Si serui usus fructus sit legatus, quidquid is ex opera sua adquirit uel ex re fructuarii, ad eum1 pertinet, siue stipuletur siue ei possessio fuerit tradita. si uero heres institutus sit uel legatum acceperit, Labeo distinguit, cuius gratia2 uel heres instituitur uel legatum acceperit.
If the usufruct of a slave has been bequeathed, whatever he acquires from his own labor or from the property of the usufructuary belongs to the latter, whether the slave enters into a stipulation or possession has been delivered to him. But if the slave is appointed heir or receives a legacy, Labeo makes a distinction based on whose account he is appointed heir or receives the legacy.
- 7.1.21.pris... eum
On the referents of the pronouns: the demonstrative is refers to the preceding serui (the slave), whereas eum refers to the 'usufructuary' (fructuarius) implied by fructuarii. This distinction ensures that the acquisition goes to the usufructuary, not the slave's owner.
- 7.1.21.prcuius gratia
A phrase consisting of the genitive singular of the interrogative pronoun cuius and the postpositioned ablative noun gratia (for the sake of / on account of). It introduces an indirect question dependent on the verb distinguit, meaning 'on whose account (the slave was appointed heir, etc.)'.