[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §7.8.15.prFundi usu legato licebit usuario et ex penu quod in annum dumtaxat sufficiat capere, licet mediocris praedii eo modo fructus consumantur: quia et domo et seruo ita uteretur, ut nihil alii fructuum nomine superesset.
[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum.] If the use of a tract of land is bequeathed, the user will be permitted to take even from the provisions what is sufficient for at most a year, although the fruits of a modest estate may be consumed in that manner; because he would use both a house and a slave in such a way that nothing would be left for another under the name of fruits.
§7.8.15.1Sicuti is, cui usus fundi legatus est, quo minus dominus agri colendi causa ibi uersetur, prohibere non potest (alioquin et frui dominum prohibebit), ita nec heres quicquam facere debet, quo minus is cui usus legatus est utatur, ut bonus pater familias uti debet.
Just as he to whom the use of a tract of land is bequeathed cannot prevent the owner from being present there for the purpose of cultivating the land (otherwise he will also prevent the owner from enjoying the fruits), so also the heir ought not to do anything to prevent him to whom the use is bequeathed from using it as a good head of a household ought to use it.