- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
This section explains that when the usufruct of a tract of land is bequeathed, the demolition of a villa on it does not extinguish the usufruct, as the villa is an accession to the land.
[ULPIANUS libro septimo decimo ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIANUS from the seventeenth book on Sabinus.]
Fundi usu fructu legato1 si uilla diruta sit, usus fructus non extinguetur, quia uilla fundi accessio est: non magis quam si arbores deciderint.2
If the usufruct of a tract of land has been bequeathed, even if the villa has been demolished, the usufruct will not be extinguished, because the villa is an accession to the land; no more so than if the trees had fallen.
- 7.4.8.prFundi usu fructu legato
An ablative absolute construction consisting of usu fructu (usufruct, ablative singular) and legato (bequeathed, perfect passive participle ablative singular), modified by fundi (of the land, genitive). It sets the conditional framework for the entire sentence.
- 7.4.8.prnon magis quam si arbores deciderint
A comparative construction in which the main verb extinguetur (will be extinguished) is understood: non magis [extinguetur] quam si... 'It will no more [be extinguished] than if the trees had fallen,' establishing a parallel that the usufruct is not lost in either case.