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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.2.20.pr

Security for Threatened Damage Between Usufructuary and Owner

Passage 6143 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text explains the exceptional circumstances under which security for threatened damage is applicable between a usufructuary and a property owner, and clarifies why neither can demand security from the other for the ruin of a building based on their respective legal obligations.

[IDEM libro nono decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §39.2.20.prInter fructuarium et dominum proprietatis ita damni infecti cautio locum habet, si fructuarius quidem de soli uitio caueri sibi desideret, dominus uero proprietatis de operis uitio, si quid fructuarius aedificet: nam de ruina aedium neuter ab altero cautionem desiderare potest, fructuarius ideo, quia refectio aedium ad eius ipsius onus non pertinet, proprietarius ideo, quia usitata stipulatio, qua de re restituenda fructuarius cauet, ad hunc quoque casum porrigitur.
[THE SAME, in the nineteenth book on the Provincial Edict.] Security for threatened damage takes place between a usufructuary and the owner of the property only in this way: if the usufructuary indeed desires security to be given to him for a defect of the soil, while the owner of the property desires it for a defect of the work, if the usufructuary builds anything; for neither of them can demand security from the other for the ruin of a building—the usufructuary for this reason, because the repair of the building does not pertain to his own burden, and the owner for this reason, because the usual stipulation, by which the usufructuary gives security for the restoration of the property, is extended also to this case.

Notes

  1. §39.2.20.prita... si — The correlation between the adverb `ita` (in this way) and the conjunction `si` (if) expresses a restrictive condition, meaning "only if..." or "only under the condition that...".
  2. §39.2.20.prcaueri sibi — `caueri` is the present passive infinitive of `caueo` (to give security), used impersonally to mean "security to be given." `sibi` is the dative referring back to the subject of the clause (the usufructuary).
  3. §39.2.20.prde re restituenda — `restituenda` is the gerundive (future passive participle) in the ablative feminine singular agreeing with `re`, meaning "concerning the property to be restored." It refers to the duty to return the object of usufruct upon its expiration.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.2.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.2.20.pr

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