- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
The text explains that a seller must explicitly reserve any servitude for themselves, as general clauses only apply to third parties, and that a servitude is extinguished by merger when ownership of the servient property is acquired.
[ULPIANUS libro decimo ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIAN, on Sabinus, book 10]
Quidquid uenditor seruitutis nomine sibi recipere uult, nominatim recipi oportet: nam illa generalis receptio 'quibus est seruitus, utique esto' ad extraneos pertinet, ipsi nihil prospicit uenditori ad iura eius conseruanda: nulla enim habuit,1 quia nemo ipse sibi seruitutem debet: quin immo et si debita fuit seruitus, deinde dominium rei seruientis peruenit ad me, consequenter dicitur extingui seruitutem.2
Whatever a seller wishes to reserve for himself under the name of a servitude must be reserved specifically; for that general reservation “for those who have a servitude, let it by all means exist” pertains to third parties, and provides nothing for the seller himself to preserve his rights; for he held no servitude, because no one can owe a servitude to himself. Nay rather, even if a servitude was owed, and then the ownership of the serving property came to me, it is consequently said that the servitude is extinguished.
- 8.4.10.prnulla enim habuit
The subject of the verb habuit is the seller (uenditor). The object nulla is either a feminine singular accusative standing for nullam (seruitutem) (as corrected in some manuscripts) or a neuter plural accusative representing nulla iura (no rights). In either case, it indicates that the seller held no servitude over the property because an owner cannot hold a servitude over his own property.
- 8.4.10.prconsequenter dicitur extingui seruitutem
An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction (extingui seruitutem) depends on dicitur. Although classical Latin often prefers a personal construction with nominative and infinitive (N.C.I., e.g., seruitus dicitur extingui), here it is used impersonally ("it is said that the servitude is extinguished").