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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
It describes the governor's measures when boundaries are confused by a flood, and the duty of the judge cognizing boundaries to dispatch measurers and inspect the sites if necessary.
[ULPIANUS libro sexto opinionum.]
[ULPIANUS, Book VI of Opinions.]
Si irruptione fluminis fines agri confudit inundatio ideoque usurpandi1 quibusdam loca, in quibus ius non habent, occasionem praestat, praeses prouinciae alieno eos abstinere et domino suum restitui terminosque per mensorem declarari2 iubet.
If a flood, by the breaking of a river, has confused the boundaries of a field and thereby affords to certain persons an opportunity of usurping places in which they have no right, the governor of the province orders them to abstain from what belongs to another, and his own to be restored to the owner, and the boundaries to be declared by a measurer.
Ad officium de finibus cognoscentis pertinet mensores mittere et per eos dirimere ipsam finium quaestionem ut aequum est, si ita res exigit, oculisque suis subiectis locis.3
It belongs to the duty of the judge who takes cognizance of boundaries to send measurers, and through them to settle the question of boundaries itself as is equitable, if the circumstances so require, after having inspected the places with his own eyes.
- 10.1.8.prusurpandi
usurpandi is the genitive of the gerund, modifying occasionem. loca is the direct object (accusative) of usurpandi.
- 10.1.8.pralieno eos abstinere et domino suum restitui terminosque per mensorem declarari
Three accusative-and-infinitive (A.C.I.) constructions are coordinated under the governing verb iubet: (1) eos is the subject accusative of the active infinitive abstinere; (2) suum is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive restitui; (3) terminos is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive declarari.
- 10.1.8.1oculisque suis subiectis locis
locis subiectis is an ablative absolute with the perfect participle. oculis suis is a dative modifier of subicere. Literally meaning 'the places having been subjected to his own eyes,' it signifies 'having personally inspected the sites'.