- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.8.19.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
It is stated that a part of a use cannot be bequeathed, on the grounds that while one can enjoy the fruits of a property in part, one cannot split the actual use of it into parts.
[IDEM libro tertio ad Uitelium.]
[THE SAME, in the third book to Vitellius.]
Usus pars1 legari non potest: nam frui quidem pro parte possumus, uti2 pro parte non possumus.
A part of a use cannot be bequeathed; for indeed we can enjoy a part, but we cannot use a part.
- 7.8.19.prUsus pars
usus is the genitive singular of the fourth-declension noun usus, modifying pars (nominative singular), meaning 'a part of a use'.
- 7.8.19.prfrui ... uti
These are the present infinitives of the deponent verbs fruor and utor respectively, both depending on the main verb possumus. Although they usually govern the ablative case, here they are used absolutely with the prepositional phrase pro parte (in part).