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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.1.39.pr

Retaining Usufruct by Enjoying Its Purchase Price

Passage 1210 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains why one who enjoys the price of a usufruct is understood to possess it no less than one who uses and enjoys the principal thing itself.

[GAIUS libro septimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §7.1.39.prquia qui pretio fruitur, non minus habere intellegitur, quam qui principali re utitur fruitur.
[GAIUS, in the seventh book on the provincial edict.] because he who enjoys the price is understood to possess no less than he who uses and enjoys the principal thing.

Notes

  1. §7.1.39.prhabere — The object of habere is omitted, understood from the context as usum fructum (usufruct) following usum fructum retinere at the end of the preceding section §7.1.38.pr.
  2. §7.1.39.prpretio fruitur / principali re utitur fruitur — The deponent verbs utor (to use) and fruor (to enjoy) govern the ablative case; here, pretio and principali re serve as their respective ablative complements.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.1.39.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.1.39.pr

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