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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.3.29.pr

Rents and Services Treated as Equivalent to Fruits

Passage 1027 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that, in the context of the petition for inheritance, rents from tenants, the services of slaves, and the freight of ships and beasts of burden are treated as equivalent to fruits.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum. ] §5.3.29.prMercedes plane a colonis acceptae loco sunt fructuum.
[ULPIANUS, on the Edict, book 15] Rents clearly received from tenants are in the place of fruits.
operae quoque seruorum in eadem erunt causa, qua sunt pensiones: item uecturae nauium et iumentorum.
The services of slaves also will be in the same position as rents for lodgings; likewise the freight of ships and beasts of burden.

Notes

  1. §5.3.29.prloco sunt — The ablative `loco` used with the genitive `fructuum` functions predicatively, meaning "in the place of" or "equivalent to." This is similar to expressions like `loco habere` (to regard as equivalent).
  2. §5.3.29.prin eadem erunt causa, qua — `causa` means "legal position" or "status." The relative pronoun `qua` is an ablative feminine singular agreeing with the antecedent `causa`, standing for `in qua (causa)`, indicating that the services of slaves will be "in the same position in which" rents (`pensiones`) are.
  3. §5.3.29.pritem uecturae — After `item` (likewise), the predicate `in eadem erunt causa` from the previous clause is understood as omitted. Thus, the freight charges (`uecturae`) of ships (`nauium`) and beasts of burden (`iumentorum`) are also in the same legal position.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.3.29.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.3.29.pr

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