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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.7.26.pr-33.7.26.1

Classification of Planted Jars and Grain Mills

Passage 5086 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Labeo and other jurists discuss whether large jars containing plants constitute part of a building, and whether hand-mills and beast-driven mills should be classified as household furniture or as equipment of the estate.

[IDEM libro quinto ex posterioribus Labeonis. ] §33.7.26.prDolia, fictilia, item plumbea, quibus terra adgesta est, et in his uiridiaria posita aedium esse Labeo Trebatius putant.
[THE SAME, from the posthumous works of Labeo, book 5] Labeo and Trebatius think that large jars, whether of earthenware or lead, into which earth has been put and in which plants are set, belong to the building.
ita id uerum puto, si ita illigata sint aedibus, ut ibi perpetuo posita sint.
I think this is true only if they are so attached to the building that they are permanently placed there.
§33.7.26.1Molas manuarias quidem suppellectilis, iumentarias autem instrumenti esse Ofilius ait.
Ofilius says that hand-mills belong to household furniture, but mills driven by beasts of burden belong to the equipment.
Labeo Cascellins Trebatius neutras suppellectilis, sed potius instrumenti putant esse, quod uerum puto.
Labeo, Cascellius, and Trebatius think that neither belongs to household furniture, but rather to the equipment, which I think is correct.

Notes

  1. §33.7.26.praedium esse — Predicative genitive (genitive of possession), meaning "belong to the building" or "form part of the building (aedes, aedium f. pl.)".
  2. §33.7.26.prita... si... — Used correlatively to express a strong limitation, meaning "only in that case (ita), if (si the condition is met)".
  3. §33.7.26.1neutras — Accusative plural feminine referring back to the preceding molae (mills), functioning as the subject accusative of the infinitive clause, meaning "neither of the two types of mills (is...)".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.7.26.pr-33.7.26.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.7.26.pr-33.7.26.1

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