- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.1.74.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
This section explains that a bequest of a usufruct to different slaves owned by different masters has the same legal effect as if it were bequeathed to the masters directly, belonging to them in equal shares.
[GAIUS libro septimo ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS libro septimo ad edictum prouinciale.]
Si Sticho seruo tuo et Pamphilo meo legatus fuerit usus fructus, tale est legatum, quale si1 mihi et tibi legatus esset: et ideo dubium non est, quin aequaliter ad nos pertineat.2
If the usufruct has been bequeathed to your slave Stichus and my slave Pamphilus, the legacy is of such a character as if it had been bequeathed to me and to you; and therefore there is no doubt that it belongs to us in equal shares.
- 7.1.74.prtale est legatum, quale si
The correlative construction talis ... qualis ... followed by the conditional clause si forms a hypothetical comparison ("such as if..."). The subjunctive pluperfect legatus esset represents a counterfactual condition (a direct bequest to the masters themselves).
- 7.1.74.prquin aequaliter ad nos pertineat
A noun clause introduced by the negative expression of doubt dubium non est (there is no doubt), using the conjunction quin with the present subjunctive pertineat. ad nos (to us) refers to the masters of the slaves (mihi et tibi).