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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
This section explains the specific scope and restrictions of road servitudes (iter, actus, uia), and notes that an intervening estate not subject to the servitude prevents its establishment between non-adjacent properties.
[IDEM libro uicensimo primo ad edictum.]
[BY THE SAME AUTHOR, On the Edict, Book 21]
Qui sella aut lectica uehitur, ire, non agere dicitur: iumentum uero ducere non potest, qui iter tantum habet. qui actum habet, et plostrum ducere et iumenta agere potest. sed trahendi lapidem aut tignum neutri eorum ius est:1 quidam nec hastam rectam ei ferre licere,2 quia neque eundi neque agendi gratia id faceret et possent fructus eo modo laedi. qui uiam habent, eundi agendique ius habent: plerique et trahendi quoque et rectam hastam referendi, si modo fructus non laedat.
He who is carried in a chair or a litter is said to go (ire), not to drive (agere). But he who has only a right of way (iter) cannot lead a beast of burden. He who has a right of driving (actus) can both draw a wagon and drive beasts of burden. But neither of them has the right of dragging stone or timber. Some hold that he is not even allowed to carry a spear upright, because he would do this neither for the sake of going nor of driving, and the fruits might be damaged in that manner. Those who have a highway (uia) have the right of going and driving; most hold that they also have the right of dragging and of carrying an upright spear, provided only that it does not damage the fruits.
In rusticis autem praediis impedit seruitutem medium praedium, quod non seruit.3
In the case of rustic estates, however, an intervening estate which is not subject to the servitude prevents the servitude.
- 8.3.7.prneutri eorum ius est
A dative of possession (dativus possessivus). 'neutri' is the dative singular of the pronominal adjective 'neuter' (neither of the two). Literally, 'the right does not exist for either of them,' meaning 'neither of them has the right.'
- 8.3.7.prquidam nec hastam rectam ei ferre licere
An accusative and infinitive construction in indirect speech with the governing verb (such as putant or existimant) omitted. 'quidam' (some people) is the subject, and 'ferre licere' (that it is allowed to carry) forms the object clause. 'nec' acts as an emphatic negative meaning 'not even'.
- 8.3.7.1medium praedium, quod non seruit
The verb 'servire' (to serve) is used here intransitively in the context of Roman property law to mean 'to be subject to a servitude.' 'medium praedium' refers to an 'intervening estate' situated between the dominant and servient tenements.