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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.5.3.pr

Bequest of Usufruct of Debts and Legacies to Debtors

Passage 1292 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Following the senatusconsult, the usufruct of all things became capable of being bequeathed, leading to a debate on whether this includes debts (Nerva denying it, but Cassius and Proculus correctly affirming it), while Nerva himself allows bequest to the debtor with interest remitted.

[ULPIANUS libro octauo decimo ad Sabinum. ] §7.5.3.prPost quod omnium rerum usus fructus legari poterit.
[ULPIANUS in the eighteenth book on Sabinus.] After this [senatusconsult], the usufruct of all things could be bequeathed.
an et nominum? Nerua negauit: sed est uerius, quod Cassius et Proculus existimant, posse legari.
Whether also of debts? Nerva denied it: but that which Cassius and Proculus think, that it can be bequeathed, is more correct.
idem tamen Nerua ipsi quoque debitori posse usum fructum legari scribit et remittendas ei usuras.
Yet the same Nerva writes that a usufruct can be bequeathed to the debtor himself as well, and that the interest is to be remitted to him.

Notes

  1. §7.5.3.prPost quod — The neuter singular relative pronoun quod refers back to the senatus consultum (senatusconsult) mentioned in the preceding section (§7.5.2.1). Thus, it means 'after this [senatusconsult]'.
  2. §7.5.3.prnominum — Genitive plural of nomen (name, ledger entry). In Roman law, it refers to debts or financial claims recorded in accounts, and is regularly translated as 'debts' or 'claims'.
  3. §7.5.3.prremittendas ei usuras — remittendas is a gerundive (future passive participle) forming an accusative-with-infinitive construction with esse omitted. Its subject accusative is usuras (plural accusative), expressing necessity or obligation ('interest must be remitted').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.5.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.5.3.pr

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