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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.1.2.pr-10.1.2.1

Scope of the Boundary Action and Judicial Authority

Passage 1626 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that the action for establishing boundaries primarily concerns rustic estates and that the judge has the authority to settle disputes and redraw boundaries through adjudication and condemnation when boundaries are unclear.

[ULPIANUS libro nono decimo ad edictum. ] §10.1.2.prHaec actio pertinet ad praedia rustica, quamuis aedificia interuenient: neque enim multum interest, arbores quis in confinio an aedificium ponat.
[ULPIANUS, Book XIX on the Edict.] This action relates to rustic estates, even though buildings are situated between them; for it makes no great difference whether one places trees or a building on the boundary.
§10.1.2.1Iudici finium regundorum permittitur, ut, ubi non possit dirimere fines, adiudicatione controuersiam dirimat: et si forte amouendae ueteris obscuritatis gratia per aliam regionem fines dirigere iudex uelit, potest hoc facere per adiudicationem et condemnationem.
The judge in an action for establishing boundaries is permitted, when he cannot determine the boundaries, to settle the dispute by adjudication; and if by chance, for the sake of removing ancient obscurity, the judge should wish to direct the boundaries through another area, he can do this through adjudication and condemnation.

Notes

  1. §10.1.2.prarbores quis in confinio an aedificium ponat — A disjunctive indirect question clause with the subjunctive present ponat, serving as the subject of the impersonal verb interest.
  2. §10.1.2.1amouendae ueteris obscuritatis gratia — A gerundive construction where the postpositional preposition gratia (governing the genitive to express purpose) is used with the noun ueteris obscuritatis and its agreeing gerundive amouendae.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.1.2.pr-10.1.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.1.2.pr-10.1.2.1

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