- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
Gaius explains that when a usufruct of consumables like wine or wheat is bequeathed, ownership transfers to the legatee, who must provide security for restoring equivalent items or their appraised value, a rule applicable to all other consumables.
[GAIUS libro septimo ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS in the seventh book on the Provincial Edict.]
Si uini olei frumenti usus fructus legatus erit, proprietas ad legatarium transferri debet et ab eo cautio desideranda est, ut, quandoque1 is mortuus aut capite deminutus sit, eiusdem qualitatis res restituatur, aut aestimatis rebus2 certae pecuniae nomine cauendum est, quod et commodius est. idem scilicet de ceteris quoque rebus, quae usu continentur,3 intellegemus.
If the usufruct of wine, oil, or wheat is bequeathed, the ownership must be transferred to the legatee, and security must be demanded from him so that, whenever he dies or suffers a change of status, property of the same quality shall be restored, or, after the property has been appraised, security must be given under the name of a fixed sum of money, which is also more convenient. We shall, of course, understand the same to apply to all other things which are consumed by use.
- 7.5.7.prquandoque
A conjunction meaning "whenever," which here takes the subjunctive (mortuus [sit] aut capite deminutus sit) and forms a conditional clause embedded within the ut clause (ut... res restituatur).
- 7.5.7.praestimatis rebus
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun res and the past participle aestimatis. It expresses the condition or premise "after the things (to be consumed) have been appraised," modifying the following impersonal gerundive cauendum est.
- 7.5.7.prquae usu continentur
Literally "things which are contained by use," but in Roman law, it refers to things whose substance is consumed by their use (consumables, res quae usu consumuntur).