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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.2.5.pr

Invalidity of a Usufruct Granted to Take Effect upon Death

Passage 4957 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that a usufruct stipulated or bequeathed "when I die" is invalid in both contracts and legacies, because the usufruct itself is destined to perish upon the holder's death.

[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §33.2.5.prUsum fructum 'cum moriar' inutiliter stipulor: idem est in legato, quia et constitutus usus fructus morte intercidere solet.
[PAULUS, On Sabinus, book III.] I stipulate for a usufruct 'when I die' to no purpose; the same is true in the case of a legacy, because even an established usufruct is accustomed to perish by death.

Notes

  1. §33.2.5.prstipulor — A deponent verb meaning to stipulate or exact a promise as a creditor in a verbal contract (stipulatio). Here it is in the first-person singular present.
  2. §33.2.5.pret — Used adverbially to emphasize constitutus ("even", "also"). Since even an already "established" usufruct is extinguished by death, a contract that attempts to initiate the right at the moment of death is contradictory and void.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.2.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.2.5.pr

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