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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §25.1.3.pr-25.1.3.1

Agricultural Costs and Perpetual Benefit for Necessary Expenses

Passage 3662 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus states that expenditures on propagating vines or caring for trees are deemed necessary expenses, and provides a general rule that expenditures are classified as either necessary expenses or offset against crops depending on whether they are for perpetual utility or for the current year's harvest.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo sexto ad Sabinum. ] §25.1.3.pruel si uites propagauerit uel arbores curauerit uel seminaria pro utilitate agri fecerit, necessarias inpensas fecisse uidebitur.
[ULPIANUS, On Sabinus, book 36] or if he has propagated vines, or cared for trees, or made nurseries for the utility of the land, he will be deemed to have incurred necessary expenses.
§25.1.3.1Nos generaliter definiemus multum interesse, ad perpetuam utilitatem agri uel ad eam quae non ad praesentis temporis pertineat, an uero ad praesentis anni fructum: si in praesentis, cum fructibus hoc compensandum: si uero non fuit ad praesens tantum apta erogatio, necessariis inpensis computandum.
We shall generally define that there is a great difference whether it is for the perpetual utility of the land, or for that which does not pertain only to the present time, or indeed for the fruit of the present year: if it is for that of the present year, this must be offset against the fruits; but if the expenditure was not suitable for the present time only, it must be reckoned as necessary expenses.

Notes

  1. §25.1.3.pruidebitur — Nominative with infinitive construction. The subject is an omitted third person singular (contextually the husband), meaning "he will be deemed to have made necessary expenses."
  2. §25.1.3.1eam — The demonstrative pronoun `eam` (accusative feminine singular) refers to `utilitatem` in the preceding phrase.
  3. §25.1.3.1si in praesentis — An elliptical expression. `praesentis` (genitive singular) implies the omission of `fructum` (or `temporis`), meaning "if [it is] for that of the present [year/time]."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §25.1.3.pr-25.1.3.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:25.1.3.pr-25.1.3.1

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