- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
Paulus states that an opening for washing floors is neither a stream nor subject to prescription, explaining the principle that all praedial servitudes must have a permanent cause.
[PAULUS libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum.]
[PAULUS, in the fifteenth book on Sabinus.]
Foramen in imo pariete conclauis uel triclinii, quod esset proluendi pauimenti causa, id1 neque flumen esse neque tempore adquiri placuit. hoc ita uerum est, si in eum locum nihil ex caelo aquae ueniat (neque enim perpetuam causam habet quod manu fit): at quod ex caelo cadit, etsi non assidue fit, ex naturali tamen causa fit et ideo perpetuo fieri existimatur. omnes autem seruitutes praediorum perpetuas causas2 habere debent, et ideo neque ex lacu neque ex stagno concedi aquae ductus potest. stillicidii quoque immittendi naturalis et perpetua causa esse debet.
It has been held that an opening at the bottom of the wall of a room or a dining room, which is for the purpose of washing the floor, is neither a stream nor can it be acquired by lapse of time. This is true only if no water from the sky comes into that place (for what is done by hand does not have a permanent cause); but what falls from the sky, even if it does not happen continuously, nevertheless happens from a natural cause and is therefore deemed to happen permanently. Moreover, all praedial servitudes must have permanent causes, and therefore a right of conducting water can be granted neither from a lake nor from a pond. The cause for discharging dripping water must also be natural and permanent.
- 8.2.28.prForamen ... id
The noun 'Foramen' at the beginning of the sentence is introduced in the nominative (or as a topic) and, after the relative clause, is picked up by the demonstrative pronoun 'id' acting as the subject of the infinitive clause (Aci) governed by the impersonal 'placuit' ('it has been held/approved').
- 8.2.28.prperpetuas causas
Refers to the 'permanent causes' (perpetuae causae), a legal requirement for the establishment of praedial servitudes (especially water rights). It contrasts temporary states created by human hands (manu factum) with continuous states arising from natural causes (naturalis causa) like rainwater.