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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Pomponius states that the usufruct of ancient gold or silver coins, which are commonly used as ornaments instead of gems, can be bequeathed.
[POMPONIUS libro quinto ad Sabinum.]
[POMPONIUS in the fifth book on Sabinus.]
Nomismatum aureorum uel argenteorum ueterum,1 quibus pro gemmis uti solent,2 usus fructus legari potest.
The usufruct of ancient gold or silver coins, which people are accustomed to use as gems, can be bequeathed.
- 7.1.28.prNomismatum aureorum uel argenteorum ueterum
A genitive phrase containing nomismatum, the genitive plural of the Greek-derived neuter noun nomisma (coin, money). It functions as the objective genitive modifying usus fructus. Although coins are normally consumable things (res consumptiles) and thus not subject to a strict usufruct, the relative clause 'quibus pro gemmis uti solent' indicates that these coins are treated as non-consumable ornaments, thereby making them eligible for a standard usufruct.
- 7.1.28.prquibus pro gemmis uti solent
The relative pronoun quibus is a neuter plural ablative, taking the preceding nomismatum as its antecedent, and serving as the object of the deponent verb uti (present infinitive) which governs the ablative case. The phrase pro gemmis means 'in place of gems' or 'as gems'. The subject of solent (third-person plural) is general people.