- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.1.41.pr-7.1.41.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
This passage affirms the validity of bequeathing the usufruct of statues and portraits, as well as lands that require more expenditure than they yield.
[IDEM libro septimo institutionum.]
[THE SAME, in the seventh book of his Institutes.]
Statuae et imaginis usum fructum posse relinqui magis est,1 quia et ipsae habent aliquam utilitatem, si quo2 loco oportuno ponantur.
It is the better opinion that the usufruct of a statue and of a picture can be bequeathed, because they themselves also have some utility if they are placed in a suitable location.
Licet praedia quaedam talia sint, ut3 magis in ea impendamus, quam de illis adquiramus, tamen usus fructus eorum relinqui potest.
Even though certain lands are of such a nature that we spend more on them than we acquire from them, yet their usufruct can be bequeathed.
- 7.1.41.prmagis est
An ellipsis of magis est [verum / receptum / opinio], acting as an impersonal construction taking the accusative with infinitive clause Statuae et imaginis usum fructum posse relinqui as its subject. It means 'it is the more accepted opinion' or 'it is more likely to be true.'
- 7.1.41.prquo
The indefinite pronoun aliquo with the prefix ali- dropped after the conditional conjunction si. It is in the ablative masculine singular, modifying the noun phrase loco oportuno ('in some suitable place').
- 7.1.41.1licet ... talia sint, ut
The concessive conjunction licet governs the subjunctive present sint ('even though...'), while the correlative demonstrative talia introduces a consecutive ut clause with the subjunctives impendamus and adquiramus ('of such a nature that...').