- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
It explains that if a slave subject to a third party's usufruct is surrendered for noxa by the owner to the usufructuary, the usufruct (servitude) is extinguished by merger due to the acquisition of ownership.
[IDEM libro primo manualium.]
[THE SAME AUTHOR in the first book of Manuals.]
Si seruus, in quo usus fructus alienus est, noxae dedatur a domino proprietatis usufructuario,1 liberabitur2 confusa seruitute3 proprietatis comparatione.4
If a slave, in whom someone else has a usufruct, is surrendered for noxa by the owner of the property to the usufructuary, he will be freed, the servitude being merged by the acquisition of the property.
- 7.4.27.prusufructuario
Dative of indirect object indicating the recipient of the surrender for noxa, referring here to the usufructuary.
- 7.4.27.prliberabitur
The subject is seruus. It means that the slave is "freed" from the legal burden of the servitude (usufruct) imposed upon him, meaning that the servitude is extinguished.
- 7.4.27.prconfusa seruitute
Ablative absolute showing the cause of extinguishment: "the servitude being merged (by confusio)".
- 7.4.27.prproprietatis comparatione
Ablative of means. The noun comparatio means "acquisition". It indicates the causal mechanism of the merger (confusio): "by the acquisition of the ownership (proprietas)".