- 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 passage discusses the liability for compensation when an appointed heir delays entering upon an inheritance to postpone a bequest of usufruct, and Sabinus' opinion that a slave whose usufruct is bequeathed does not become free upon the usufructuary receiving the valuation of the bequest from the heir.
[IDEM libro primo ad Urseium Ferocem.]
[THE SAME in the first book on Urseius Ferox.]
Si usus fructus legatus est, sed heres scriptus ob hoc tardius adit, ut tardius ad legatum perueniretur,1 hoc quoque praestabitur, ut Sabino placuit.
If a usufruct has been bequeathed, but the appointed heir enters upon the inheritance more slowly for this purpose, that the bequest might be reached more slowly, this also will be made good, as Sabinus approved.
Usus fructus serui mihi legatus est isque, cum ego uti frui desissem, liber esse iussus est: deinde ego ab herede aestimationem legati tuli: nihilo magis eum liberum fore sabinus respondit (namque videri me uti frui homine, pro quo aliquam rem habeam),2 condicionem autem eius libertatis eandem manere, ita ut mortis meae aut capitis deminutionis interuentu liber futurus esset.
The usufruct of a slave was bequeathed to me, and he, when I should cease to use and enjoy him, was ordered to be free; then I received the valuation of the bequest from the heir. Sabinus replied that he would be none the more free (for indeed I am deemed to use and enjoy the man in place of whom I hold some thing), but that the condition of his freedom remained the same, so that he would become free upon the occurrence of my death or loss of status.
- 7.1.35.prob hoc tardius adit, ut tardius ad legatum perueniretur
The accusative of the demonstrative pronoun ob hoc ('for this purpose') anticipates the following purpose clause introduced by ut ('so that...'). adit is an elliptical expression for adire hereditatem ('to enter upon the inheritance').
- 7.1.35.1namque videri me uti frui homine, pro quo aliquam rem habeam
A parenthetical clause explaining the reason for Sabinus' response in indirect speech (accusative with infinitive). The subject of videri ('to seem/be deemed') is the accusative me ('I'), complemented by the infinitives uti frui ('to use and enjoy'). The verb habeam in the relative clause pro quo... is in the subjunctive present because of the dependency on the indirect speech.