- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.6.15.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
Discussing the preservation of a servitude when the middle estate is acquired, explaining that the servitude over the first and last estates is not extinguished by merger but can still stand.
[IDEM libro secundo epistularum.]
[THE SAME, from the second book of Epistles.]
Si, cum seruitus mihi per plures fundos deberetur, medium fundum adquisiui, manere seruitutem puto, quia totiens seruitus confunditur, quotiens1 uti ea is ad quem pertineat non potest: medio autem fundo adquisito2 potest consistere, ut per primum et ultimum iter debeatur.3
If, when a servitude was owed to me through several estates, I acquired the middle estate, I think that the servitude remains, because a servitude is merged only so often as he to whom it belongs cannot use it; but even when the middle estate is acquired, it can stand that a right of way is owed through the first and the last estate.
- 8.6.15.prtotiens seruitus confunditur, quotiens
While totiens ... quotiens usually means "as often as", here it indicates a restrictive condition "only so far as" or "only in so far as". It shows that the merger (confusio) of a servitude occurs only when the person entitled to it is unable to exercise it.
- 8.6.15.prmedio autem fundo adquisito
An ablative absolute construction. Accompanied by the conjunction autem (but/however), it carries a concessive nuance ("even though the middle estate is acquired"), reinforcing and specifying the previous statement that the servitude remains.
- 8.6.15.prpotest consistere, ut per primum et ultimum iter debeatur
The ut-clause (ut ... debeatur) functions as the subject of the verb potest consistere (can stand, can exist). It is interpreted as a noun clause: "that a right of way is owed through the first and the last estate can still stand."