- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
The text determines the allocation of rent when a usufructuary dies after the harvest, and whether a bequest of a share of crop proceeds constitutes a usufruct.
[SCAEUOLA libro tertio responsorum.]
[SCAEVOLA in the third book of Opinions.]
Defuncta fructuaria mense Decembri iam omnibus fructibus, qui in his agris nascuntur, mense Octobri per colonos sublatis1 quaesitum est, utrum pensio heredi fructuariae solui deberet, quamuis fructuaria ante kalendas Martias, quibus pensiones inferri debeant, decesserit, an diuidi debeat inter heredem fructuariae et rem publicam, cui proprietas legata est. respondi rem publicam quidem cum colono nullam actionem habere, fructuariae uero heredem sua die secundum ea quae proponerentur integram pensionem percepturum.2
A female usufructuary died in the month of December, when all the fruits which grow on these lands had already been gathered by the tenants in the month of October. The question arose whether the rent ought to be paid to the heir of the usufructuary, even though the usufructuary died before the first of March, on which day the rents ought to be paid, or whether it should be divided between the heir of the usufructuary and the municipality to which the ownership had been bequeathed. I answered that the municipality indeed has no action against the tenant, but that the heir of the usufructuary, according to the facts stated, would receive the entire rent at its proper term.
'Sempronio do lego ex redactu fructuum holeris et porrinae, quae habeo in agro Farrariorum, partem sextam'. quaeritur, an his uerbis usus fructus legatus uideatur. respondi non usum fructum, sed ex eo quod redactum esset partem legatam.
”I give and bequeath to Sempronius a sixth part of the proceeds of the crop of vegetables and leeks which I have in the Farrarian land.” The question is whether by these words a usufruct is to be considered as bequeathed. I answered that not a usufruct, but a share of what had been realized was bequeathed.
Item quaesitum est, si usus fructus non esset, an quotannis partem sextam redactam legauerit. respondi quotannis uideri relictum, nisi contrarium specialiter ab herede adprobetur.3
The question was also asked, if there were no usufruct, whether he had bequeathed a sixth part of the proceeds annually. I answered that it appears to have been left annually, unless the contrary is specially proved by the heir.
- 7.1.58.prDefuncta fructuaria... sublatis
Both "Defuncta fructuaria mense Decembri" and "iam omnibus fructibus... mense Octobri per colonos sublatis" are ablative absolute constructions, describing the background circumstances (time and cause) prior to the question asked in the main clause.
- 7.1.58.prfructuariae uero heredem sua die... percepturum
This is an accusative-with-infinitive construction introduced by the main verb "respondi". "heredem" is the subject accusative, and "percepturum" is a future infinitive with "esse" omitted ("percepturum esse").
- 7.1.58.2nisi contrarium specialiter ab herede adprobetur
The present subjunctive "adprobetur" in the conditional clause with "nisi" expresses a future possibility or a hypothetical condition regarding the proof to be provided.