- Source
- 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 for alternate years cannot be lost by non-use, because each year's right is considered a distinct legacy.
[IDEM libro tertio decimo ad Plautium.]
[THE SAME AUTHOR in the thirteenth book on Plautius.]
Si usus fructus alternis annis legetur, non posse1 non utendo2 eum amitti, quia plura sunt legata.3
If a usufruct is bequeathed for alternate years, it cannot be lost by non-use, because they are multiple legacies.
- 7.4.28.prnon posse
This is an accusative with infinitive (accusativus cum infinitivo) construction in indirect speech (oratio obliqua), where the governing verb (such as "respondit" or "placuit") is omitted. It conveys the meaning 'it is held that it cannot...'
- 7.4.28.prnon utendo
A gerund in the ablative case, expressing means or cause ('by not using', 'by non-use'). It refers to the loss of a usufruct through non-use ("non usus").
- 7.4.28.prplura sunt legata
The subject is the neuter plural "legata". It provides the legal rationale that the bequest of a usufruct for alternate years is not considered a single continuous bequest, but rather multiple ("plura") distinct legacies, meaning that non-use in one year does not cause the loss of the right for other years.