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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.4.27.pr

Noxal Surrender and Extinction of Usufruct by Merger

Passage 1285 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that if a slave subject to a third party's usufruct is surrendered for noxa by the owner to the usufructuary, the usufruct (servitude) is extinguished by merger due to the acquisition of ownership.

[IDEM libro primo manualium. ] §7.4.27.prSi seruus, in quo usus fructus alienus est, noxae dedatur a domino proprietatis usufructuario, liberabitur confusa seruitute proprietatis comparatione.
[THE SAME AUTHOR in the first book of Manuals.] If a slave, in whom someone else has a usufruct, is surrendered for noxa by the owner of the property to the usufructuary, he will be freed, the servitude being merged by the acquisition of the property.

Notes

  1. §7.4.27.prusufructuario — Dative of indirect object indicating the recipient of the surrender for noxa, referring here to the usufructuary.
  2. §7.4.27.prliberabitur — The subject is seruus. It means that the slave is "freed" from the legal burden of the servitude (usufruct) imposed upon him, meaning that the servitude is extinguished.
  3. §7.4.27.prconfusa seruitute — Ablative absolute showing the cause of extinguishment: "the servitude being merged (by confusio)".
  4. §7.4.27.prproprietatis comparatione — Ablative of means. The noun comparatio means "acquisition". It indicates the causal mechanism of the merger (confusio): "by the acquisition of the ownership (proprietas)".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.4.27.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.4.27.pr

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