- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
Proculus states that if one's water pipes in a public road burst and flood another's wall, the victim can rightly bring an action asserting that the owner has no right for water to flow into their wall.
[PROCULUS libro quinto epistularum.]
[PROCULUS, book 5 of Epistles.]
Fistulas, quibus aquam duco, in uia publica habeo et hae ruptae1 inundant parietem tuum: puto posse te mecum recte agere ius mihi non esse flumina ex meo in tuum parietem fluere.2
I have pipes, by which I conduit water, in a public road, and these, having burst, flood your wall: I think that you can rightly bring an action against me to the effect that I have no right for water to flow from my property into your wall.
- 8.5.13.prruptae
A nominative feminine plural perfect passive participle agreeing with the preceding 'fistulae' (indicated by 'hae'), expressing the state or cause of the flooding ('having burst').
- 8.5.13.prius mihi non esse flumina ex meo in tuum parietem fluere
An accusative with infinitive clause (AcI) explaining the substance of the action ('recte agere'). The infinitive phrase 'flumina... fluere' serves as the subject or definition of 'ius... esse', yielding the meaning 'that I have no right for water to flow'. In 'ex meo', a noun such as 'praedio' (estate) or 'corpore' (property) is understood after 'meo'.