- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
Discusses the loss of usufruct when land is inundated by a river or sea, and the subsequent restoration of both ownership and usufruct if the water recedes with the same force.
[IDEM libro uicensimo sexto ad Quintum Mucium.]
[THE SAME in the twenty-sixth book on Quintus Mucius.]
Si ager, cuius usus fructus noster sit,1 flumine uel mari inundatus fuerit, amittitur usus fructus, cum etiam ipsa proprietas eo casu amittatur: ac ne piscando2 quidem retinere poterimus usum fructum. sed quemadmodum, si eodem impetu discesserit aqua, quo uenit, restituitur proprietas, ita et usum fructum restituendum dicendum est.3
If land, the usufruct of which is ours, should be inundated by a river or the sea, the usufruct is lost, since even the ownership itself is lost in that event; and we will not be able to retain the usufruct even by fishing. But just as ownership is restored if the water recedes with the same force with which it came, so also it must be said that the usufruct must be restored.
- 7.4.23.prcuius usus fructus noster sit
The subjunctive 'sit' in the relative clause indicates a subjunctive of characteristic within the hypothetical framework established by the conditional clause 'Si ager...', or is attracted by the mood of the surrounding syntax.
- 7.4.23.prpiscando
The ablative of the gerund expressing means ('by fishing'). It indicates that even if one fishes on the inundated land which has now become water, this cannot be considered a retention of the usufruct of the land.
- 7.4.23.prusum fructum restituendum dicendum est
A construction where the accusative and infinitive clause 'usum fructum restituendum [esse]' (with 'esse' omitted) depends on the impersonal passive periphrastic 'dicendum est' ('it must be said').