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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 that if a part of land is sold, the right of aqueduct follows the sold portion as well, and the water must be divided in proportion to the acreage of the parts, not based on their value or need.
[IDEM libro trigensimo quarto ad Sabinum.]
[THE SAME, On Sabinus, Book 34]
Si partem fundi mei certam tibi uendidero, aquae ductus ius, etiamsi alterius partis causa plerumque ducatur, te quoque sequetur:1 neque ibi aut bonitatis agri aut usus eius aquae ratio habenda est ita, ut eam solam partem fundi, quae pretiosissima sit aut maxime usum eius aquae desideret, ius eius ducendae sequatur, sed pro modo agri detenti aut alienati2 fiat eius aquae diuisio.
If I sell to you a certain part of my land, the right of aqueduct, even if the water is usually drawn for the sake of the other part, will follow you as well; and in that case, account is not to be taken either of the quality of the land or of the use of that water in such a way that the right of drawing it should follow only that part of the land which is most valuable or which most requires the use of that water, but a division of that water should be made in proportion to the size of the land retained or alienated.
- 8.3.25.prte quoque sequetur
Grammatically, sequetur (future of sequi) takes the accusative te ("will follow you as well"). In the context of servitudes, this indicates that the right of aqueduct runs with the transferred portion of the land for the benefit of the purchaser.
- 8.3.25.prpro modo agri detenti aut alienati
Here, modus refers to the "measure" or "acreage" of the land. Thus, the phrase means "in proportion to the area of the land retained or alienated," establishing that the water is divided based on physical size rather than the productivity or needs of the respective parts.