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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.7.16.pr-33.7.16.2

Scope of Equipment in Vineyards and Inhabited Estates

Passage 5076 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Alfenus discusses what is included in the equipment of a villa or a vineyard, and how to interpret a bequest of a land "as it was equipped" when the paterfamilias himself resided there.

[ALFENUS libro secundo digestorum a Paulo epitomatorum. ] §33.7.16.prUillae instrumento legato supellectilem non contineri uerius est.
[ALFENUS in the second book of the Digests, epitomized by Paulus.] When the equipment of a villa is bequeathed, it is more correct that furniture is not included.
§33.7.16.1Uinea et instrumento eius legato instrumentum uineae nihil esse Seruius respondit: qui eum consulebat, Cornelium respondisse aiebat palos perticas rastros ligones instrumenti uineae esse: quod uerius est.
When a vineyard and its equipment are bequeathed, Servius answered that there is no such thing as equipment of a vineyard; but the person who consulted him said that Cornelius had answered that stakes, poles, rakes, and hoes belong to the equipment of a vineyard, which is more correct.
§33.7.16.2Quidam uxori fundum, uti instructus esset, in quo ipse habitabat, legauit.
A certain man bequeathed to his wife a land, just as it was equipped, in which he himself used to dwell.
consultus de mulieribus lanificis an instrumento continerentur, respondit non quidem esse instrumenti fundi, sed quoniam ipse pater familias, qui legasset, in eo fundo habitasset, dubitari non oportere, quin et ancillae et ceterae res, quibus pater familias in eo fundo esset instructus, omnes legatae uiderentur.
Having been consulted whether the wool-spinning women were included in the equipment, he answered that they indeed did not belong to the equipment of the land, but since the paterfamilias himself who had bequeathed it had lived on that land, there ought to be no doubt that both the female slaves and the other things with which the paterfamilias was equipped on that land all appeared to be bequeathed.

Notes

  1. 33.7.16.1instrumenti uineae esse — The genitive of the noun is used with the copula (esse) to denote belonging to or constituting a part of something (genitive of possession or characteristic).
  2. 33.7.16.2non quidem esse instrumenti fundi — Here too, the construction of esse + genitive (instrumenti fundi) is used, meaning "they do not indeed belong to the equipment of the land."
  3. 33.7.16.2dubitari non oportere, quin — The impersonal verb oportere governs the passive infinitive dubitari, which, being in a negative context, is followed by a quin clause meaning "there ought to be no doubt that..."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.7.16.pr-33.7.16.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.7.16.pr-33.7.16.2

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