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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.16.10.pr

Loss of Usufruct by Non-Use and Plunderer Liability

Passage 7086 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The author argues that if a usufructuary ejected by a plunderer loses his usufruct due to non-use, the owner retains the restored usufruct, while the loss must be borne by the plunderer whose act caused it.

[GAIUS libro secundo ad edictum praetoris urbani titulo de liberali causa. ] §43.16.10.prSi de fundo proprietarium et fructuarium praedo expulerit atque ob id fructuarius constituto tempore non usus perdiderit ius suum, nemo dubitat, quin dominus, siue experiatur cum fructuario aduersus praedonem siue non experiatur, retinere debeat reuersum ad se usum fructum et, quod fructuarius perdidit, id ad damnum eius pertineat, cuius facto periit.
[GAIUS, in the second book on the Edict of the Urban Praetor, under the title "On Status Trials".] If a plunderer ejects the owner and the usufructuary from a tract of land, and thereby the usufructuary loses his right by not using it within the established time, no one doubts that the owner, whether he brings an action against the plunderer together with the usufructuary or does not bring an action, ought to retain the usufruct returned to him, and that what the usufructuary lost should be charged to the loss of him by whose act it perished.

Notes

  1. 43.16.10.prnon usus — Formally, this is the perfect participle usus of the deponent verb utor combined with the negative non, functioning adverbially to express cause or means ("by not using"). It carries the conceptual force of the noun non-usus (non-use).
  2. 43.16.10.preius, cuius facto periit — The antecedent eius refers in this context to the plunderer (praedo) who ejected them from the land. facto is the ablative singular of the noun factum (act, deed), meaning "by the act of...". The whole clause indicates that the plunderer, whose act caused the usufruct to perish, must bear the liability for the loss.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.16.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.16.10.pr

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