- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
Pomponius explains the rule of substituting new offspring in place of useless animals to maintain a flock, and discusses how this substitution affects the ownership of the animals.
[POMPONIUS libro quinto ad Sabinum.]
[POMPONIUS libro quinto ad Sabinum.]
uel inutilium1 alia summittere, ut post substituta fiant propria fructuarii, ne lucro ea res cedat domino.2 et sicut substituta statim domini fiunt, ita priora3 quoque ex natura fructus desinunt eius4 esse: nam alioquin quod nascitur fructuarii est et cum substituit, desinit eius esse.
or to substitute other animals in place of useless ones, so that after they have been substituted, they become the property of the usufructuary, lest this matter should result in a gain for the owner. And just as the substituted animals immediately become the owner’s property, so also the former ones, by the nature of fruits, cease to be his; for otherwise, what is born belongs to the usufructuary, and when he substitutes it, it ceases to be his.
- 7.1.69.pruel inutilium
This phrase connects back to the end of the preceding passage by Ulpian (7.1.68.1) "in locum capitum defunctorum" (in the place of deceased heads), with "in locum" understood: "uel [in locum] inutilium [capitum]" (or in place of useless ones).
- 7.1.69.prpropria fructuarii, ne lucro ea res cedat domino
This manuscript reading logically contradicts the immediately following phrase "sicut substituta statim domini fiunt" (just as the substituted things immediately become the owner's). Scholars suspect that "fructuarii" and "domino" were transposed by a scribal error (correctly reading "propria domini... fructuario"), or that there is a lacuna. The translation here renders the manuscript text as it stands.
- 7.1.69.prpriora
The "former ones" (priora) refers to the offspring at the stage of birth before being designated for substitution, which would otherwise be the property of the usufructuary as "fruits" (fructus).
- 7.1.69.preius
The genitive pronoun "eius" in both "desinunt eius esse" and "desinit eius esse" refers to the usufructuary (fructuarius).