- 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 the fruit of a slave consists of their services (and vice versa) and that, as with other property, necessary expenses must be deducted when determining the fruit of slaves' services.
[IDEM libro secundo de liberali causa edicti urbici.]
[THE SAME, in the second book on the ‘Freedom Suit’ of the Urban Edict.]
Fructus hominis1 in operis constitit et retro in fructu hominis operae sunt. et ut in ceteris rebus fructus deductis necessariis impensis2 intellegitur, ita3 et in operis seruorum.
The fruit of a slave consists in services, and conversely, services are included in the fruit of a slave. And just as in other things, fruit is understood after deducting necessary expenses, so also is it in the services of slaves.
- 7.7.4.prhominis
The word homo (genitive hominis) here refers to a 'slave' (seruus) in this context and in Roman legal terminology, rather than a human being in general.
- 7.7.4.prdeductis necessariis impensis
An ablative absolute construction, consisting of the perfect passive participle deductis (from deduco) and the noun impensis modified by the adjective necessariis, meaning 'necessary expenses having been deducted'.
- 7.7.4.prut... ita
A correlative comparative construction meaning 'just as... so...'. In the succeeding ita clause (ita et in operis seruorum), the verb intellegitur (or the entire structure fructus... intellegitur) from the preceding ut clause is understood and omitted.