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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.1.32.pr

Reservation of Usufruct or Personal Rights in Alienation

Passage 1203 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text discusses how a person transferring a house or land can validly reserve personal rights, such as use, usufruct, pasturage, or habitation, for themselves.

[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §7.1.32.prSi quis unas aedes, quas solas habet, uel fundum tradit, excipere potest id, quod personae, non praedii est, ueluti usum et usum fructum.
[POMPONIUS in the thirty-third book on Sabinus.] If anyone delivers a single house, which is the only one he has, or a tract of land, he can reserve that which belongs to a person, not to an estate, such as use and usufruct.
sed et si excipiat, ut pascere sibi uel inhabitare liceat, ualet exceptio, cum ex multis saltibus pastione fructus perciperetur.
But also if he should reserve a right, so that it may be lawful for him to pasture cattle or to inhabit, the reservation is valid, since from many pastures fruit is gathered by pasturage.
et habitationis exceptione, siue temporali siue usque ad mortem eius qui excepit, usus uidetur exceptus.
And by the reservation of habitation, whether temporary or up to the death of him who made the reservation, use is deemed to have been reserved.

Notes

  1. §7.1.32.prunas aedes — Since 'aedes' (house) in the plural (aedes, -ium) is a plurale tantum meaning 'a single house', the numeral for 'one' is also used in its plural form 'unas'.
  2. §7.1.32.prpersonae, non praedii — These are possessive genitives (used with 'est'), meaning that the right 'belongs to a person' (personal servitude, such as usufruct) and not 'to an estate' (praedial servitude).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.1.32.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.1.32.pr

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