- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
Modestinus explains that a legacy of a usufruct to take effect 'when the legatee dies' is void, because it is deferred to the very moment when the usufruct must terminate by departing from the person.
[MODESTINUS libro nono differentiarum.]
[MODESTINUS, in the ninth book of Differences.]
Titio 'cum morietur1' usus fructus inutiliter legari intellegitur, in id tempus uidelicet collatus,2 quo a persona discedere3 incipit.
A usufruct bequeathed to Titius ‘when he shall die’ is understood to be bequeathed ineffectively, obviously because it is deferred to that time at which it begins to depart from the person.
- 7.1.51.prcum morietur
A temporal clause indicating a future time of certain occurrence but uncertain date. The future indicative morietur specifies the time when the legacy is to take effect (dies cedit).
- 7.1.51.prcollatus
Perfect passive participle agreeing with the subject usus fructus. It functions here as a circumstantial participle expressing the reason: "since it is deferred [to that time]".
- 7.1.51.pra persona discedere
Refers to the personal nature of usufruct (a personal servitude), which is attached to the person (persona) of the usufructuary and departs (discedere) from them, i.e., terminates, upon their death.