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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.23.pr

Alternative Legacy of an Estate or Its Usufruct

Passage 4749 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text explains that if an estate or its usufruct is bequeathed alternatively, the legatee can claim either of them, whereas someone bequeathed only the estate cannot choose to claim only the usufruct.

[MARCELLUS libro tertio decimo digestorum. ] §31.0.23.pr'Lucio Titio fundum Seianum uel usum fructum fundi Seiani lego'. potest legatarius uel fundum uindicare uel fructum, quod facere non potest is cui tantum fundus legatus est.
[MARCELLUS, in the thirteenth book of his digests.] 'I bequeath to Lucius Titius the Seian estate or the usufruct of the Seian estate.' The legatee can claim either the estate or the usufruct, which is something that he to whom only the estate has been bequeathed cannot do.

Notes

  1. 31.0.23.prfructum — An abbreviation for the preceding `usum fructum` (usufruct), meaning `usum fructum` here.
  2. 31.0.23.prquod facere non potest — The relative pronoun `quod` refers back to 'claiming the usufruct (fructum uindicare)' (or having the option to do so). A person to whom only the estate is bequeathed can claim the estate, but cannot isolate and claim only the usufruct.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.23.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.23.pr

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