- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
Explains that no legal action can be brought against a person who darkens a neighbor's building by building higher, provided that he does not owe any servitude of light to that neighboring building.
[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo tertio ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS in the fifty-third book on the edict.]
Cum eo, qui tollendo1 obscurat uicini aedes, quibus non seruiat,2 nulla competit actio.
No action lies against one who, by building higher, obstructs the light of a neighbor’s house to which he does not owe a servitude.
- 8.2.9.prtollendo
Ablative of the gerund of tollere (to raise, lift up), expressing means ("by building higher"). In Roman property law, it specifically refers to raising the height of a building (altius tollere).
- 8.2.9.prquibus non seruiat
The antecedent is aedes (feminine plural), making the relative pronoun quibus a dative plural. Since the verb seruire (to owe a servitude, to be subject to an easement) governs the dative, the clause means "to which [neighboring buildings] he [or his property] does not owe a servitude." The subjunctive seruiat expresses a characteristic or conditional limitation.