- 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 if the usufruct of consumable goods like wool or perfumes is bequeathed, no legal usufruct is established in the strict sense, and therefore recourse must be had to the senate-consult regulating security for such things.
[IDEM libro octauo decimo ad Sabinum.]
[THE SAME in the eighteenth book on Sabinus.]
Si lanae alicui legatus sit usus fructus uel odorum uel aromatum, nullus uidetur usus fructus in istis iure constitutus,1 sed ad senatus consultum erit descendendum,2 quod de cautione eorum loquitur.
If the usufruct of wool or of perfumes or of spices has been bequeathed to someone, no usufruct is deemed to have been legally established in these things, but recourse must be had to the senate-consult which speaks of security for them.
- 7.5.11.prnullus uidetur usus fructus in istis iure constitutus
This is a personal construction of the verb uideor ("to seem" or "to be deemed") with a nominative and infinitive, where the copula esse is omitted after the perfect participle constitutus. The phrase means "no usufruct is deemed to have been legally established in these things (istis)." Here, istis (ablative) refers to the previously mentioned wool, perfumes, or spices.
- 7.5.11.prerit descendendum
This is an impersonal passive periphrastic conjugation using the gerundive (future passive participle) of the intransitive verb descendo, expressing obligation or necessity in the future tense. The idiom descendere ad followed by the accusative means "to have recourse to" or "to resort to" a legal remedy or authority.