- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
It describes that a testator can obligate their heir in a will to allow or establish various urban and rustic servitudes for the benefit of a neighbor.
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[GAIUS, book 2 of Everyday Matters or Golden Words]
Potest etiam in testamento heredem suum quis damnare,1 ne altius aedes suas tollat, ne luminibus aedium uicinarum officiat, uel ut patiatur eum tignum in parietem immittere, uel stillicidia aduersus eum habere,2 uel ut patiatur uicinum per fundum suum uel heredis3 ire agere aquamue ex eo ducere.
Anyone can also in a will bind his heir not to raise his own building higher, not to obstruct the light of neighboring buildings, or to permit him to insert a beam into the wall, or to have roof-drippings against him, or to permit a neighbor to go, drive, or draw water through his own land or that of the heir.
- 8.4.16.prheredem suum quis damnare
The verb 'damnare' derives from the formulaic expression in wills for imposing an obligation on the heir ('legatum per damnationem'). Here, taking 'ne' and 'ut' clauses, it means to obligate the heir to allow or establish servitudes. 'quis' is the indefinite pronoun 'anyone' acting as the subject of the sentence.
- 8.4.16.preum tignum in parietem immittere, uel stillicidia aduersus eum habere
The first 'eum' is the subject of the accusative-with-infinitve construction ('immittere') and refers to the neighbor. In contrast, 'eum' in 'aduersus eum' is the object of the preposition, referring to the 'heir' ('heredem') who is subject to the servitude. The phrase 'stillicidia ... habere' is construed as an infinitive clause dependent on the preceding 'ut patiatur' (i.e., '[ut patiatur eum] stillicidia ... habere').
- 8.4.16.prfundum suum uel heredis
The reflexive possessive pronoun 'suum' refers back to the subject of the main clause, the testator ('quis'). Thus, it means either the testator's own land or that of the heir.