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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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The text discusses the indivisibility of the extinction and remission of servitudes on common land, and whether a right of conduit is lost when a spring dries up but later returns to flow after the prescriptive period.
[PAPINIANUS libro septimo quaestionum.]
[PAPINIANUS, Questions, Book 7]
Unus ex sociis fundi communis permittendo1 ius esse ire agere nihil agit: et ideo si duo praedia, quae mutuo seruiebant, inter eosdem fuerint communicata, quoniam seruitutes pro parte retineri placet, ab altero seruitus alteri remitti non potest: quamuis enim unusquisque sociorum solus sit, cui seruitus debetur, tamen quoniam non personae, sed praedia deberent, neque adquiri libertas neque remitti seruitus per partem2 poterit.
One of the co-owners of a common estate achieves nothing by permitting a right of way or drive to exist; and therefore, if two estates which mutually owed servitudes to each other become common property among the same persons, since it is held that servitudes are retained in part, the servitude cannot be remitted by one co-owner to the other estate. For although each of the co-owners is individually a person to whom the servitude is owed, nevertheless, since it is not persons but estates that owe the servitude, freedom from servitude cannot be acquired, nor can the servitude be remitted, in part.
Si fons exaruerit, ex quo ductum aquae habeo isque post constitutum tempus3 ad suas uenas redierit, an aquae ductus amissus erit, quaeritur:
If a spring from which I have a right of conduit dries up, and after the established time has passed it returns to its veins, the question is raised whether the right of conduit is lost.
- 8.3.34.prpermittendo
Ablative of the gerund, here carrying a concessive force, meaning "even by permitting". It illustrates the principle of the indivisibility of servitudes, where a single co-owner cannot individually grant a servitude over a common estate.
- 8.3.34.prper partem
Meaning "in part" or "by share". Because a servitude is an indivisible right attached to the land, it cannot be partially remitted or released (libertas acquired) with respect to only a portion or share of the co-ownership.
- 8.3.34.1constitutum tempus
Meaning "the established time", referring here to the prescriptive period for the loss of a servitude through non-use, which was typically two years under classical Roman law.