- 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 explains that when a property subject to a servitude is acquired, the servitude is extinguished by merger, and must be expressly established again if resold. He also discusses how the acquisition of a part of an estate or a usufruct affects the servitude.
[PAULUS libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum.]
[PAULUS, in the fifteenth book on Sabinus.]
Si quis aedes, quae suis aedibus1 seruirent, cum emisset traditas sibi accepit, confusa sublataque seruitus est, et si rursus uendere uult, nominatim imponenda seruitus est: alioquin liberae ueniuunt.2
If anyone, when he had bought a house which owed a servitude to his own house, received delivery of it, the servitude is merged and extinguished; and if he wishes to sell it again, the servitude must be expressly imposed; otherwise they are sold as free from servitude.
Si partem praedii nactus sim, quod mihi aut cui ego seruiam,3 non confundi seruitutem placet, quia pro parte seruitus retinetur. Itaque si praedia mea praediis tuis seruiant et tuorum partem mihi et ego meorum partem tibi tradidero, manebit seruitus. Item usus fructus in alterutris praediis adquisitus non interrumpit seruitutem.
If I should acquire a part of an estate which owes a servitude to me, or to which I owe a servitude, it is held that the servitude is not merged, because the servitude is retained in proportion to the share. Therefore, if my estates should owe a servitude to your estates, and you deliver a part of yours to me and I deliver a part of mine to you, the servitude will remain. Likewise, a usufruct acquired in either of the estates does not interrupt the servitude.
- 8.2.30.prsuis aedibus
The reflexive possessive adjective suis, although located within the subordinate relative clause, refers back to the subject of the main clause, quis (i.e., "his own house").
- 8.2.30.prueniuunt
Third-person plural present indicative of the irregular verb ueneo (to be sold, to go on sale). Active in form but passive in meaning, it should not be confused with forms of uenio (to come).
- 8.2.30.1quod mihi aut cui ego seruiam
Asymmetrical shift in the case of the relative pronoun and the subject of the verb. In the first part quod mihi, the verb seruiat is implied (with the estate as the subject: "which owes a servitude to me"), whereas in the second part cui ego seruiam, the relative pronoun is in the dative cui and the subject switches to ego ("to which I owe a servitude"). Both refer back to the antecedent praedii.