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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.6.12.pr

Inheritance of the Claim for Mistakenly Granted Usufruct

Passage 1987 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that if a person mistakenly grants a usufruct of land believing they owe it and dies before recovering it, the right of action for its recovery (condictio) passes to their heir.

[PAULUS libro septimo ad Sabinum. ] §12.6.12.prSi fundi mei usum fructum tibi dedero falso existimans me eum tibi debere et antequam repetam decesserim, condictio eius ad heredem quoque meum transibit.
[PAULUS, On Sabinus, book 7.] If I should give you the usufruct of my land, falsely thinking that I owe it to you, and die before I recover it, the action for its recovery will also pass to my heir.

Notes

  1. §12.6.12.preum — The accusative pronoun eum (masculine singular accusative) within the accusative with infinitive clause (me eum tibi debere) governed by existimans refers back to usum fructum (masculine), indicating the mistaken belief that the usufruct itself, rather than the land (fundus, also masculine), was owed.
  2. §12.6.12.prcondictio eius — eius is the genitive singular of the third-person pronoun, functioning as an objective genitive referring back to usum fructum. Thus, condictio eius means 'the condictio (action for recovery) of the usufruct.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.6.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.6.12.pr

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