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- 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 provisions the attribution of the use of equipment when land is bequeathed as equipped, the owner's right to guard the property for boundary protection, and property acquisition through a slave of whom one has only the use.
[POMPONIUS libro quinto ad Sabinum.]
[POMPONIUS libro quinto ad Sabinum.]
Si ita legatus esset1 usus fundi, ut instructus esset, earum rerum, quae instrumento fundi essent, perinde ad legatarium usus pertinet ac si nominatim ei earum rerum usus legatus fuisset.
If the use of a tract of land should be bequeathed in such a way that it is equipped, the use of those things which belong to the equipment of the land belongs to the legatee just as if the use of those things had been bequeathed to him by name.
Dominus proprietatis etiam inuito usufructuario uel usuario fundum uel aedes per saltuarium uel insularium custodire potest: interest enim eius fines praedii tueri.2 eaque omnia dicenda sunt, quolibet modo constitutus usus fructus uel usus fuerit.
The owner of the property can, even against the will of the usufructuary or the user, guard the land or the building through a forest-keeper or a building-keeper; for it is in his interest to protect the boundaries of the estate. And all these things must be said, in whatever manner the usufruct or use has been established.
Seruo, cuius usum dumtaxat,3 non etiam fructum habemus, potest et a nobis quid donari uel etiam ex pecunia nostra negotium esse,4 ut quidquid eo modo adquisierit, in peculio nostro sit.
To a slave of whom we have only the use, and not also the enjoyment, something can be donated by us, or there can even be a transaction from our money, so that whatever he acquires in that manner may be in our peculium.
- 7.8.16.prSi ita legatus esset usus fundi, ut instructus esset
The ut clause correlates with ita, functioning as a restrictive or consecutive clause specifying the state in which the tract of land was bequeathed. instructus agrees with the omitted noun fundus in gender, number, and case.
- 7.8.16.1interest enim eius fines praedii tueri
The impersonal verb interest takes the genitive of the person concerned (eius). The subject of the verb is the infinitive phrase fines praedii tueri (to protect the boundaries of the estate).
- 7.8.16.2Seruo, cuius usum dumtaxat...
Seruo is in the dative case, serving as the indirect object or the person for whom the actions take place, governing both potest... donari and [potest]... negotium esse.
- 7.8.16.2negotium esse
The combination of the noun negotium (nominative) and the infinitive esse functions as the subject of the governing verb potest (literally, 'a transaction can exist / be conducted').