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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.1.61.pr

Prohibition on New Channels and Completing Buildings

Passage 1232 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It discusses that a usufructuary is generally not permitted to place a new channel on walls or to complete an unfinished building, and that no usufruct exists over such an unfinished building.

[NERATIUS libro secundo responsorum. ] §7.1.61.prUsufructuarius nouum riuum parietibus non potest inponere.
[NERATIUS in the second book of Responses.] A usufructuary cannot place a new channel upon walls.
aedificium inchoatum fructuarium consummare non posse placet, etiamsi eo loco aliter uti non possit, sed nec eius quidem usum fructum esse: nisi in constituendo uel legando usu fructu hoc specialiter adiectum sit, ut utrumque ei liceat.
It is held that a usufructuary cannot complete an unfinished building, even if he cannot use that place in any other way, and indeed that there is not even a usufruct of it; unless this has been specifically added in establishing or bequeathing the usufruct, namely, that both should be permitted to him.

Notes

  1. §7.1.61.praedificium inchoatum fructuarium consummare non posse placet, sed nec eius quidem usum fructum esse — Two accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) clauses stand in subject relation to the impersonally used verb `placet` (it is held). The first is `aedificium ... non posse` (that the usufructuary cannot complete an unfinished building), and the second, introduced by `sed`, is `nec eius quidem usum fructum esse` (and that not even the usufruct of it exists).
  2. §7.1.61.prin constituendo uel legando usu fructu — A gerundive construction where the gerundives `constituendo` and `legando` agree in gender, number, and case with the noun `usu fructu` (ablative singular), which is governed by the preposition `in`.
  3. §7.1.61.prutrumque — Accusative neuter singular of the pronoun `uterque` (both). It can be interpreted as referring to the two immediately preceding matters: "completing the building" (`consummare`) and "having the usufruct of it" (`usum fructum esse`); or alternatively, to the two main prohibitions of the fragment: "placing a new channel" (`nouum riuum inponere`) and "completing an unfinished building" (`aedificium inchoatum consummare`).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.1.61.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.1.61.pr

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