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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
On the separate grant of a servitude of passage and driving over commonly owned land, Celsus presents the strict rule requiring all co-owners to agree for it to be validated, contrasted with an equitable view that forbids those who have already granted it from obstructing its use.
[CELSUS libro uicensimo septimo digestorum.]
[CELSUS, Digests, Book 27]
Per fundum, qui plurium est, ius mihi esse eundi agendi1 potest separatim cedi. ergo suptili ratione non aliter meum fiet ius, quam si omnes cedant et nouissima demum cessione superiores omnes2 confirmabuntur: benignius tamen dicetur et antequam nouissimus cesserit, eos, qui antea cesserunt, uetare uti cesso iure non posse.3
Through land which belongs to several persons, the existence of a right for me to walk and drive can be granted separately. Therefore, by strict reasoning, the right will not become mine otherwise than if all make the grant, and only by the very last grant will all the preceding ones be confirmed. However, it will be more equitably held that, even before the last person has made the grant, those who have already made their grants cannot forbid [the grantee] from using the right thus granted.
- 8.3.11.prius mihi esse eundi agendi
This is an accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) clause functioning as the subject of the passive verb phrase potest cedi. mihi is a dative of possession, and eundi agendi are genitives of the gerund modifying ius, referring respectively to the servitudes of passage (iter) and driving (actus).
- 8.3.11.prsuperiores omnes
Feminine plural nominative, agreeing with the implied noun cessiones (previous grants) understood from the preceding cessione. It functions as the subject of the verb confirmabuntur.
- 8.3.11.pruetare uti cesso iure non posse
An indirect statement (AcI) depending on benignius tamen dicetur. The subject accusative of non posse is eos (the co-owners who granted earlier). uetare takes an implied accusative (the grantee) as its object along with the infinitive uti ("to forbid to use"). cesso iure is an ablative governed by the deponent verb uti.