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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
Ulpian discusses the application of stipulations for security when use, fruit, habitation, or services are bequeathed, noting that the anti-fraud clause extends to successors and adoptive fathers.
[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo nono ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS in the seventy-ninth book on the Edict.]
Huic stipulationi 'dolum malum abesse afuturumque esse' continetur: et cum in rem1 sit doli mali mentio concepta, omnium dolum comprehendere uidetur successorum et adoptiui patris.
This stipulation contains the clause “that fraud is and shall be absent”; and since the mention of fraud is drafted in general terms (in rem), it is deemed to encompass the fraud of all successors and of an adoptive father.
Sed si usus sine fructu legatus erit, adempta fructus causa2 satisdari iubet praetor: hoc merito, ut de solo usu, non etiam de fructu caueatur.
But if a use without the fruit has been bequeathed, the praetor orders security to be given, the element of the fruit being removed; and this is with good reason, so that security may be provided for the use alone, and not also for the fruit.
Ergo et si fructus sine usu optigerit, stipulatio locum habebit.
Therefore, even if the fruit without the use has fallen to someone, the stipulation will take place.
Et si habitatio uel operae hominis uel cuius alterius animalis relictae fuerint, stipulatio locum habebit, licet per omnia haec usum fructum non imitantur.3
And if the right of habitation, or the services of a slave or of any other animal, have been left, the stipulation will take place, although these do not in all respects resemble usufruct.
- 7.9.5.prin rem
This indicates that the clause was drafted in an objective or general manner (in rem) rather than being restricted to a specific person (in personam). Consequently, it is interpreted to cover the fraud of any third-party successors or an adoptive father, not just the principal contracting party.
- 7.9.5.1adempta fructus causa
An ablative absolute construction where 'causa' refers to the 'ground' or 'element' of the security. Literally 'the element of the fruit having been removed', it signifies that the obligation to provide security for the fruit is excluded when only the use (usus) is being secured.
- 7.9.5.3licet ... non imitantur
The concessive conjunction 'licet' normally governs the subjunctive mood in classical Latin, but here it is used with the indicative ('imitantur'). This is a characteristic syntactic feature of Late Latin and the juristic Latin found in the Digest.