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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.1.63.pr

Transfer of Usufruct Not Held by the Landowner

Passage 1234 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the legal principle that one can transfer what is not in one's own possession, using the example of a landowner who can cede a usufruct to another even if they do not currently hold it themselves.

[PAULUS libro singulari de iure singulari. ] §7.1.63.prQuod nostrum non est, transferemus ad alios: ueluti is qui fundum habet, quamquam usum fructum non habeat, tamen usum fructum cedere potest.
[PAULUS in his single book on Singular Law.] We sometimes transfer to others what is not ours; for example, one who owns land, although he may not have the usufruct, can nevertheless cede the usufruct.

Notes

  1. §7.1.63.prtransferemus — Although it is the first-person plural future active indicative, here it does not predict a temporal future event, but expresses a general legal principle or potential action ('we transfer' / 'we may transfer').
  2. §7.1.63.prcedere — Here it does not merely mean to 'give up' physically, but refers to establishing a usufruct as a limited real right for another person through a formal legal transfer of rights (such as in iure cessio).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.1.63.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.1.63.pr

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