- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
On the purchase and exercise of the right to discharge rainwater, Julianus answers that the purchaser is protected by both an action and an exception.
[IULIANUS libro septimo digestorum.]
[IULIANUS, book 7 of Digests.]
Si a te emero, ut mihi liceat ex aedibus meis in aedes tuas stillicidium immittere et postea te sciente1 ex causa emptionis immissum habeam,2 quaero, an ex hac causa actione quadam uel exceptione tuenda sim.3 respondi utroque auxilio me usurum.4
If I purchase from you the right to be allowed to discharge rainwater from my building onto your building, and afterwards, with your knowledge, I have it discharged based on the cause of purchase, I ask whether I should be protected by some action or exception on this account. I answered that I would use both means of relief.
- 8.5.16.prte sciente
Ablative absolute, consisting of the pronoun te and the present participle sciente (from scire), meaning "with your knowledge" or "while you know".
- 8.5.16.primmissum habeam
A combination of the verb habeam (present subjunctive of habere) and the perfect participle immissum (from immittere, agreeing with stillicidium). It expresses a continuous state resulting from a past action, prefiguring the periphrastic perfect in Romance languages.
- 8.5.16.prtuenda sim
Predicate in the indirect question, composed of the gerundive tuenda and the subjunctive sim, meaning "whether I ought to be protected". The feminine form tuenda suggests that the purchaser ("I") in this hypothetical case is conceived as a female, or it may be a textual variant for the masculine tuendus.
- 8.5.16.prutroque auxilio me usurum
Accusative with infinitive construction (with esse omitted from me usurum esse) depending on the main verb respondi. Since usurum is the future participle of the deponent verb utor (to use), its object utroque auxilio is in the ablative case.