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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
Ulpian discusses whether a single right of way established over multiple estates is retained or lost as a whole when only some of the estates are used, concluding that if even one is used, the servitude is preserved as a whole.
[ULPIANUS libro quarto decimo ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIAN, On Sabinus, Book 14]
Una est uia et si per plures fundos imponatur, cum una seruitus sit. denique quaeritur, an, si per unum fundum iero, per alium non per tantum tempus, quanto seruitus amittitur,1 an retineam seruitutem?2 et magis est, ut3 aut tota amittatur aut tota retineatur: ideoque si nullo usus sum,4 tota amittitur, si uel uno, tota seruatur.
A road is single, even if it is imposed through several estates, since the servitude is single. Finally, the question is asked whether, if I have gone through one estate, but not through another for so long a time as that in which a servitude is lost, I retain the servitude. And the better opinion is that it is either lost as a whole or retained as a whole: and therefore, if I have used none, it is lost as a whole, but if even one, it is preserved as a whole.
- 8.3.18.prtantum tempus, quanto seruitus amittitur
The ablative quanto of the correlative adjective quantus refers back to tantum tempus as its antecedent, expressing 'for so long a time as that within which a servitude is lost', indicating the period required for the loss of a servitude by non-use.
- 8.3.18.pran, si per unum fundum iero, per alium non per tantum tempus, quanto seruitus amittitur, an retineam seruitutem?
The conjunction an introducing the indirect question is repeated before the verb retineam after the insertion of the conditional clause (si per unum...). This repetition serves as a stylistic pleonasm to keep the syntactic connection clear after a long parenthesis, rather than establishing a double alternative question.
- 8.3.18.pret magis est, ut
An impersonal construction magis est followed by an ut-clause with the subjunctive, meaning 'the better opinion is that...' or 'it is more widely accepted that...'.
- 8.3.18.prnullo usus sum
The masculine singular ablative form nullo functions as the object of the verb utor (usus sum), which governs the ablative. It refers back to fundus (estate), meaning 'if I have used none [of the estates]', which stands in contrast to the following si uel uno (if even one).