- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-13
It discusses the acquisition of property for the usuary of a slave, specifically when the slave acts as a shop-manager or receives goods by delivery under the usuary's order.
[MARCELLUS libro tertio decimo digestorum.]
[MARCELLUS, in the thirteenth book of the Digests.]
Seruus, cuius mihi usus legatus est, adquirit mihi, si institor erit et operis eius utar1 in taberna: nam mercibus uendundis emendisque2 adquirit mihi: sed et si iussu meo per traditionem accipiet.
A slave, the use of whom has been bequeathed to me, acquires for me if he is a shop-manager and I employ his services in a shop; for he acquires for me by buying and selling merchandise; but also if he receives anything by delivery by my order.
- 7.8.20.properis eius utar
utar is the future indicative first-person singular of the deponent verb utor (to use), which governs the ablative case. operis is the plural ablative of opera (labor, services), here referring to the physical labor or services provided by the slave.
- 7.8.20.pruendundis emendisque
These are archaic spellings (-undus) of the gerundives uendendis and emendisque, agreeing in gender, number, and case with the noun mercibus (ablative plural of merx, "merchandise"). It functions as an ablative of means.