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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.2.10.pr

Legatee Choice Between Land and Its Usufruct

Passage 4962 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julian explains the legal consequences when a legatee who is bequeathed both a tract of land and its usufruct chooses either the land, resulting in full ownership, or only the usufruct.

[IULIANUS libro septuagesimo octauo digestorum. ] §33.2.10.prSi Titio fundus et eiusdem fundi usus fructus legatus fuerit, erit in potestate eius, fundum an usum fructum uindicare malit.
[JULIAN, Digest, Book LXXVIII.] If a tract of land and the usufruct of the same land have been bequeathed to Titius, it will be in his power whether he prefers to claim the land or the usufruct.
et si fundum elegerit, necessario plenam proprietatem habebit, licet usum fructum a se reppulerit: si uero usum fructum habere maluerit et proprietatem fundi reppulerit, solum usum fructum habebit.
And if he chooses the land, he will of necessity have full ownership, even though he has rejected the usufruct; but if he prefers to have the usufruct and has rejected the ownership of the land, he will have only the usufruct.

Notes

  1. 33.2.10.prerit in potestate eius, fundum an usum fructum uindicare malit — An impersonal construction meaning 'it will be in his power,' followed by an alternative indirect question introduced by an. The verb malit is the third-person singular present subjunctive of malo.
  2. 33.2.10.prlicet usum fructum a se reppulerit — The conjunction licet ('although / even though') is used here with the subjunctive (reppulerit, the perfect subjunctive third-person singular of repello) to form a concessive clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.2.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.2.10.pr

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