- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
This chunk discusses the usufructuary's acquisition of rights when a slave makes an agreement or requests a release, and the usufructuary's power to compel the slave to work along with its limits.
[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad Sabinum.]
[THE SAME in the seventeenth book on Sabinus.]
Sed sicuti stipulando fructuario adquirit, ita etiam paciscendo eum adquirere exceptionem fructuario Iulianus libro trigensimo digestorum scribit. idemque et si acceptum rogauerit, liberationem ei parere.1
But just as by stipulating he acquires for the usufructuary, so also by making an agreement he acquires a defense for the usufructuary, as Julian writes in the thirtieth book of the Digests. And the same applies if he should ask for a formal release, namely that it produces a discharge for him.
Quoniam autem diximus quod ex operis adquiritur ad fructuarium pertinere, sciendum est etiam cogendum eum operari:2 etenim modicam quoque castigationem fructuario competere Sabinus respondit et Cassius libro octauo iuris ciuilis scripsit, ut neque torqueat, neque flagellis caedat.
Since, moreover, we have said that what is acquired from the slave’s labors belongs to the usufructuary, it must be known that he should also be compelled to work; for indeed Sabinus answered, and Cassius wrote in the eighth book on Civil Law, that moderate chastisement also belongs to the usufructuary, provided that he neither tortures nor beats him with whips.
- 7.1.23.pridemque et si acceptum rogauerit, liberationem ei parere
A continuation of the accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction dependent on the preceding Iulianus ... scribit. The word idem is the subject accusative, and parere is the infinitive. The phrase acceptum rogauerit (from acceptum rogare) refers to the legal act of asking for a formal oral discharge of a debt (acceptilatio). The pronoun ei is a dative referring to the usufructuary (fructuarius).
- 7.1.23.1cogendum eum operari
An accusative with infinitive construction introduced by sciendum est ('it must be known'). The accusative eum (referring to the slave) functions as the subject of the gerundive cogendum [esse], which is accompanied by the deponent infinitive operari ('to work'), meaning 'that he must be compelled to work.'
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-07-12) · Revision history (1, latest 2026-09-21)
- 2026-09-21 AI review — source 1