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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
Pomponius discusses the legal relationship and effects when land servitudes and usufructs are partially waived or modified, how natural changes affect the serving estate, the survival of servitudes upon purchase of adjacent land, and the predial nature of the right to draw water.
[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo tertio ad Sabinum.]
[POMPONIUS, On Sabinus, Book 33]
Si mihi eodem tempore concesseris et ire agere per tuum locum et uti frui eo ius esse, deinde ego tibi concessero ius mihi uti frui non esse: non aliter eo loco uteris frueris, quam ut1 ire agere mihi recte liceat. item si et ducere per tuum fundum aquam iure potuero et in eo tibi aedificare inuito me ius non fuerit: si tibi concessero ius esse aedificare, nihilo minus hanc seruitutem mihi praestare debebis, ne aliter aedifices, quam ut ductus aquae meus maneat, totiusque eius rei condicio talis esse debet, qualis esset, si una dumtaxat initio concessio facta esset.
If you have granted me at the same time both the right to walk and drive through your land and that I have the right to use and enjoy it, and then I grant you that I do not have the right of use and enjoyment: you shall not otherwise use and enjoy that land than so that I may properly be allowed to walk and drive. Likewise, if I had the right both to draw water through your estate and you did not have the right to build on it against my will: if I grant to you that you have the right to build, you will nevertheless be obliged to perform this servitude to me, so that you do not build otherwise than so that my water conduit remains, and the condition of this whole matter ought to be such as it would be if only one concession had been made at the beginning.
Seruitus naturaliter, non manu facto2 laedere potest fundum seruientem: quemadmodum si imbri crescat aqua in riuo aut ex agris in eum confluat aut aquae fons secundum riuum uel in eo ipso inuentus postea fuerit.
A servitude can damage a serving estate naturally, not by human hand: just as if the water in a channel should increase due to rain, or flow into it from the fields, or if a spring of water should later be found alongside the channel or in the channel itself.
Si fundo Seiano confinis fons fuerit, ex quo fonte per fundum Seianum aquam iure ducebam, meo facto3 fundo Seiano manet seruitus.
If there is a spring adjacent to the Seian estate, from which spring I used to lead water by right through the Seian estate, the servitude remains for the Seian estate by my act.
Hauriendi ius non hominis, sed praedii est.
The right of drawing water belongs not to a person, but to an estate.
- 8.3.20.prnon aliter... quam ut
A correlative restrictive expression 'non aliter... quam ut' (not otherwise... than that), where the ut-clause (with the present subjunctive 'liceat') introduces a limiting condition or result, meaning 'only insofar as my right of way is not impeded'.
- 8.3.20.1manu facto
Ablative of the noun 'manu factum' (human deed, artificial work). It stands in contrast with the preceding adverb 'naturaliter' (naturally), meaning 'not by human action or artificial means'.
- 8.3.20.2meo facto
An ablative of cause/instrument 'by my act', referring to a situation where the dominant owner performs an act (such as purchasing the adjacent land containing the spring), yet the servitude over the Seian estate still remains.