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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
Ulpian explains that if a usufruct over a slave is bequeathed only until the slave is manumitted, the owner can set the slave free because the usufruct is extinguished the moment the owner begins the manumission process.
[ULPIANUS libro octauo decimo ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIANUS from the eighteenth book on Sabinus.]
Interdum proprietarius ad libertatem perducet,1 si forte usus fructus fuerit tamdiu legatus, quamdiu manumittatur: nam incipiente proprietario manumittere2 extinguetur usus fructus.
Sometimes the owner will bring [a slave] to freedom, if by chance a usufruct has been bequeathed for so long a time as he is manumitted; for as soon as the owner begins to manumit him, the usufruct will be extinguished.
- 7.4.15.prad libertatem perducet
The direct object (the slave) of the verb perducet (future active indicative 3rd person singular of perduco) is contextually omitted. This sentence explains an exceptional situation where the owner can manumit a slave who is subject to a usufruct.
- 7.4.15.principiente proprietario manumittere
This is an ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle incipiente and the noun proprietario, with the infinitive manumittere serving as the complement to incipiente. It means "as soon as the owner begins to manumit."