- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.1.8.pr-8.1.8.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
This passage establishes that servitudes cannot be created for purely personal conveniences like gathering fruit, walking, or dining, and that an existing servitude is retained in parts when part-ownership changes, even if it could not be so acquired originally.
[PAULUS libro quinto decimo ad Plautium.]
[PAULUS in the fifteenth book on Plautius.]
Ut pomum decerpere liceat et ut spatiari et ut cenare in alieno1 possimus, seruitus imponi non potest.
A servitude cannot be established to the effect that it is permitted to gather fruit, or that we can walk or dine on another’s property.
Si praedium tuum mihi seruiat, siue ego partis praedii tui dominus esse coepero siue tu mei,2 per partes seruitus retinetur, licet ab initio per partes adquiri non poterat.3
If your estate owes a servitude to me, whether I begin to be the owner of a part of your estate or you of a part of mine, the servitude is retained in parts, although from the beginning it could not be acquired in parts.
- 8.1.8.prin alieno
The neuter ablative singular adjective alieno is used substantively with the ellipsis of praedio or solo, meaning 'on another's property' or 'on another's land'.
- 8.1.8.1siue tu mei
In parallel with the preceding clause 'siue ego partis praedii tui dominus esse coepero', we must supply the ellipsis of the verb coeperis and the noun phrase partis praedii, translating as 'or you [begin to be the owner of a part] of mine'.
- 8.1.8.1licet... poterat
The conjunction licet introducing a concessive clause normally takes the subjunctive in classical Latin, but here it is construed with the indicative imperfect poterat. This reflects post-classical usage or emphasizes an objective fact.