- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
Discusses that when one of the co-owners is a ward, the loss of a right of way through non-use does not affect the other co-owner, and that exercising a water right outside the designated hours does not prevent the loss of the right for the original hours.
[PAULUS libro quinto decimo ad Plautium.]
[PAULUS, from the fifteenth book on Plautius.]
Si communem fundum ego et pupillus haberemus, licet uterque non uteretur,1 tamen propter pupillum et ego uiam retineo.
If I and a ward should own a common estate, although neither of us were using it, yet because of the ward, I also retain the right of way.
Si is, qui nocturnam aquam habet, interdiu per constitutum ad amissionem tempus2 usus fuerit, amisit nocturnam seruitutem, qua usus non est. idem est in eo, qui certis horis aquae ductum habens aliis usus fuerit3 nec ulla parte earum horarum.
If he who has the right to draw water at night has used it during the day throughout the period established for loss of the right, he loses the nocturnal servitude which he has not used. The same is true in the case of one who, having a right to draw water at certain hours, has used it at others, and not during any part of those hours.
- 8.6.10.prlicet uterque non uteretur
The conjunction licet introduces a concessive clause with the subjunctive (here, the imperfect subjunctive uteretur), meaning 'although'. Since the subject pronoun uterque ('each of the two') is grammatically singular, the verb uteretur is also in the third-person singular.
- 8.6.10.1constitutum ad amissionem tempus
The perfect participle constitutum modifies the neuter singular noun tempus, with the prepositional phrase ad amissionem ('for the loss', i.e., by non-use) embedded between them. Taken together, it means 'the period established for the loss of the right'.
- 8.6.10.1idem est in eo, qui... aliis usus fuerit
The pronoun idem (neuter singular nominative) is the subject of the main verb est, meaning 'the same is true'. In the prepositional phrase in eo, eo acts as the antecedent of the relative pronoun qui. aliis stands for aliis horis ('at other hours') in contrast to the preceding certis horis, with the noun horis omitted, taking the ablative case as the object of the verb utor (usus fuerit).