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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
Explains that a usufruct bequeathed to a slave of an inheritance before its acceptance passes to the heir upon acceptance and does not perish.
[POMPONIUS libro tertio ad Sabinum.]
[POMPONIUS in the third book on Sabinus.]
Si seruo hereditario ante aditam hereditatem1 legatus usus fructus fuisset, magis placet adita hereditate eum usum fructum ad te transire nec interire quasi mutato dominio, quia nec dies ante cesserit, quam2 tu heres extiteris.
If a usufruct had been bequeathed to a slave of an inheritance before the inheritance was accepted, the more approved opinion is that, upon the acceptance of the inheritance, that usufruct passes to you and does not perish as if there had been a change of ownership, because the day of the bequest does not vest before you become the heir.
- 7.4.18.prante aditam hereditatem
The preposition ante is followed by the noun hereditatem and the perfect passive participle aditam, representing the action itself like a noun: "before the acceptance of the inheritance" (the so-called ab urbe condita construction).
- 7.4.18.prdies ante cesserit, quam
In Roman law, the phrase dies cedit (literally, "the day begins to run") is a technical term meaning "the right to the legacy vests." Here, in conjunction with the nec... ante... quam ("not before..." where nec is at the beginning of the clause) construction, it indicates that the vesting day does not arrive until you become the heir (tu heres extiteris).