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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §6.1.33.pr

Standards and Duration of Assessing Fruits in Claims

Passage 1104 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus discusses the standards for estimating fruits in a petitory action, citing juristic opinions on the duration of liability when the claimed thing perishes through the possessor's fault, and the effect of the termination of a usufruct on the owner of the bare property.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum. ] §6.1.33.prFructus non modo percepti, sed et qui percipi honeste potuerunt aestimandi sunt: et ideo si dolo aut culpa possessoris res petita perierit, ueriorem putat Pomponius Trebatii opinionem putantis eo usque fructuum rationem habendam, quo usque haberetur, si non perisset, id est ad rei iudicandae tempus: quod et Iuliano placet.
[PAULUS, in the twenty-first book on the Edict.] Not only the fruits that have been gathered, but also those which could honorably have been gathered must be estimated: and therefore, if the thing claimed should perish through the dolus or negligence of the possessor, Pomponius thinks that the opinion of Trebatius is more correct, who holds that the account of the fruits must be maintained up to the point at which it would have been maintained if the thing had not perished, that is, up to the time of the judgment: which is also approved by Julian.
hac ratione si nudae proprietatis dominus petierit et inter moras usus fructus amissus sit, ex eo tempore, quo ad proprietatem usus fructus reuersus est, ratio fructuum habetur.
By this reasoning, if the owner of the bare property has brought an action, and during the delays the usufruct is lost, the account of the fruits is held from that time at which the usufruct returned to the property.

Notes

  1. §6.1.33.prhoneste — The adverb `honeste` here implies not only moral honesty but also managing and gathering fruits in a standard, reasonable, or proper manner.
  2. §6.1.33.preo usque... quo usque — This correlative construction indicates "up to the point... at which." The subjunctive imperfect `haberetur` in the `quo usque` clause represents the apodosis of a counterfactual condition, assuming a continuous state contrary to past fact (introduced by `si non perisset`).
  3. §6.1.33.prnudae proprietatis — A genitive referring to "bare property" (nuda proprietas), which lacks the rights of use and enjoyment (usufruct) and retains only the right of disposal.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §6.1.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.1.33.pr

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