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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.1.2.pr

Liability for Delay in Bequests of Usufruct or Services

Passage 4929 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses how an heir obliged to allow the annual enjoyment of a tract of land is liable for the entire year if they cause delay at the beginning of the year, drawing an analogy to the late provision of a slave's daily labor.

[IDEM libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §33.1.2.prIn annos singulos heres damnatus sinere me frui fundo si initio anni, quo colere deberem, moram fecerit, licet postea patiatur, quia cultura sim exclusus, tamen totius anni nomine mihi tenebitur: quemadmodum si diurnas operas Stichi dare damnatus non a mane sed a sexta diei hora det, totius diei nomine tenetur.
[THE SAME, book six on Sabinus.] If an heir who has been ordered to allow me to enjoy a tract of land year by year should cause delay at the beginning of the year in which I ought to cultivate it, although he may allow it afterwards, since I have been excluded from cultivation, he will nevertheless be liable to me in the name of the whole year; just as if a person ordered to give the daily labor of Stichus should give it not from the morning but from the sixth hour of the day, he is held liable in the name of the whole day.

Notes

  1. §33.1.2.prheres damnatus sinere me frui fundo — The perfect participle damnatus ("ordered/obliged") modifies the subject heres and takes the infinitive sinere. In turn, sinere takes the accusative-with-infinitive construction me frui as its object, where the verb frui governs the ablative fundo ("a tract of land").
  2. §33.1.2.prquo colere deberem — The relative pronoun quo (ablative) refers back to anni. The subjunctive imperfect deberem expresses an obligation or objective expectation ("was supposed to cultivate") under the circumstances of that time.
  3. §33.1.2.prlicet postea patiatur — The conjunction licet is used with the present subjunctive patiatur ("to allow/suffer") to introduce a concessive clause: "although he may allow it afterwards."

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