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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.12.pr

Legal Remedies for Repairs and Alterations of Co-Owned Buildings

Passage 1707 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section outlines the legal remedies (the action for partition of common property or the interdict uti possidetis) available when co-owned buildings or walls require repair, demolition, or alterations.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo primo ad edictum. ] §10.3.12.prSi aedes communes sint aut paries communis et eum reficere uel demolire uel in eum immittere quid opus sit, communi diuidundo iudicio erit agendum, aut interdicto uti possidetis experimur.
[ULPIANUS, from the seventy-first book on the Edict.] If buildings are common or a wall is common, and there is need to repair it, to demolish it, or to insert something into it, proceedings must be taken by the action for partition of common property, or we may try our hand with the interdict uti possidetis.

Notes

  1. §10.3.12.preum — The masculine singular pronoun eum refers back only to the immediate noun paries (wall, masculine), and grammatically does not apply to aedes (buildings, feminine plural).
  2. §10.3.12.prcommuni diuidundo iudicio erit agendum — erit agendum is an impersonal passive construction using the gerundive of obligation, meaning 'proceedings must be taken'. communi diuidundo iudicio is an ablative of means, referring to the action for partition of common property.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.12.pr

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