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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.8.4.pr-1.8.4.1

Freedom of Shore Access for Fishing and Public Rivers

Passage 152 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Marcianus states that everyone is free to access the seashore for fishing, provided they respect private property such as villas and buildings, and notes that almost all rivers and ports are public.

[MARCIANUS libro tertio institutionum. ] §1.8.4.prNemo igitur ad litus maris accedere prohibetur piscandi causa, dum tamen uillis et aedificiis et monumentis abstineatur, quia non sunt iuris gentium sicut et mare: idque et diuus Pius piscatoribus Formianis et Capenatis rescripsit.
[MARCIANUS, Institutes, book 3.] Therefore, no one is prohibited from approaching the seashore for the purpose of fishing, provided however that they keep away from villas, buildings, and monuments, because these are not subject to the law of nations as the sea is: and this is what the deified Pius replied by rescript to the fishermen of Formiae and Capena.
§1.8.4.1Sed flumina paene omnia et portus publica sunt.
But almost all rivers and ports are public.

Notes

  1. §1.8.4.prabstineatur — This is an impersonal passive construction in the present subjunctive, third-person singular, introduced by dum tamen (provided that) to express a proviso. It governs the ablatives uillis, aedificiis, and monumentis, meaning "provided that one keeps away from villas, buildings, and monuments."
  2. §1.8.4.priuris gentium — A genitive of quality or possessive genitive functioning as the predicate of sunt, meaning "subject to the law of nations" or "belonging to the common law of all people."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.8.4.pr-1.8.4.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.8.4.pr-1.8.4.1

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