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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.8.17.pr

Legacy of House Use to a Son or Slave

Passage 1330 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Africanus asserts the validity and enforceability of a legacy of the use of a house to a son under paternal power or to a slave, explaining that the father or master may dwell in the house even in the absence of the son or slave.

[AFRICANUS libro quinto quaestionum. ] §7.8.17.prFilio familias uel seruo aedium usu legato et utile legatum esse existimo et eodem modo persecutionem eius competituram, quo competeret, si fructus quoque legatus esset.
[AFRICANUS libro quinto quaestionum.] Where the use of a house is bequeathed to a son under paternal power or to a slave, I think that the legacy is valid, and that the right to enforce it will belong in the same manner as it would belong if the usufruct also had been bequeathed.
itaque non minus absente quam praesente filio seruoue pater dominusue in his aedibus habitabit.
Therefore, the father or the master will dwell in this house no less when the son or slave is absent than when he is present.

Notes

  1. §7.8.17.prFilio familias uel seruo aedium usu legato — usu legato is an ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun usus (use) and the participle legato (bequeathed). The datives Filio familias uel seruo indicate the recipients (legatees) of this bequest.
  2. §7.8.17.preodem modo persecutionem eius competituram, quo competeret — This is an accusative-and-infinitive construction with persecutionem as the subject and competituram [esse] as the predicate, depending on existimo. eius is an objective genitive referring to usus. The ablative relative quo corresponds to the antecedent eodem modo (equivalent to eo modo quo), and competeret is the apodosis of a contrary-to-fact conditional (imperfect subjunctive).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.8.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.8.17.pr

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