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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 various servitudes, such as pasture, storage of crops, gathering vineyard props, and dumping materials from a quarry, citing Neratius. He also explains that the right to draw water implies a right of way, and contrasts private springs with public rivers.
[ULPIANUS libro septimo decimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, Book 17]
Item sic possunt seruitutes imponi, et1 boues, per quos fundus colitur, in uicino agro pascantur: quam seruitutem poni posse Neratius libro secundo membranarum scribit.
Servitudes can also be imposed in this way, so that oxen, by which an estate is cultivated, may graze on a neighboring field; Neratius writes in the second book of his Parchments that such a servitude can be established.
Idem Neratius etiam ut2 fructus in uicini uilla cogantur coactique habeantur et pedamenta ad uineam ex uicini praedio sumantur, constitui posse scribit.
The same Neratius also writes that it can be established that fruits be gathered in a neighbor’s villa and kept there after being gathered, and that props for a vineyard be taken from a neighbor’s estate.
Eodem libro ait uicino, cuius lapidicinae fundo tuo immineant, posse te cedere ius ei esse3 terram rudus saxa iacere posita habere, et ut in tuum4 lapides prouoluantur ibique positi habeantur indeque exportentur.
In the same book he says that to a neighbor, whose quarries overlook your estate, you can grant that he has the right to throw earth, rubbish, and stones and keep them there, and that stones may roll down into your estate, be kept there, and be carried away from there.
Qui habet haustum, iter quoque habere uidetur ad hauriendum et, ut ait Neratius libro tertio membranarum, siue ei ius hauriendi et adeundi cessum sit, utrumque habebit, siue tantum hauriendi, inesse et aditum,5 siue tantum adeundi ad fontem, inesse et haustum. haec de haustu ex fonte priuato. ad flumen autem publicum idem Neratius eodem libro scribit iter debere cedi, haustum non oportere et si quis tantum haustum cesserit, nihil eum agere.6
He who has the right to draw water is also deemed to have a right of way to draw it; and, as Neratius says in the third book of his Parchments, if the right of drawing and of approaching has been granted to him, he will have both; if only of drawing, the approach is also implied; if only of approaching the spring, the drawing is also implied. This applies to drawing water from a private spring. However, with regard to a public river, the same Neratius writes in the same book that a right of way must be granted, but the right of drawing water is not necessary, and if anyone should grant only the right of drawing water, he does nothing.
- 8.3.3.prItem sic possunt seruitutes imponi, et
The conjunction et functions here similarly to ut, introducing a subjunctive clause (pascantur) that specifies the concrete content of the servitude being imposed.
- 8.3.3.1Idem Neratius etiam ut
The clauses introduced by ut (ut ... cogantur ... et ... sumantur) function as the subject of the passive infinitive constitui posse, which is itself dependent on the main verb scribit.
- 8.3.3.2posse te cedere ius ei esse
A complex double accusative with infinitive construction: posse te cedere (with subject accusative te) depends on ait, and the verb cedere in turn takes as its object both the infinitive clause ius ei esse (with subject accusative ius) and the coordinated et ut clause.
- 8.3.3.2in tuum
The masculine singular accusative adjective tuum modifies the noun fundum (land, estate), which is omitted here but easily supplied from fundo tuo in the preceding relative clause.
- 8.3.3.3inesse et aditum
The subjunctive verb cessum sit is omitted in the conditional clause siue tantum hauriendi. The following clause inesse et aditum (the approach is also implied) is an accusative with infinitive construction in indirect speech dependent on ut ait Neratius, where aditum is the subject accusative and inesse is the infinitive.
- 8.3.3.3nihil eum agere
Literally "he does nothing," which is an idiomatic legal expression meaning "he accomplishes nothing legally" or "his act is of no effect (void)."