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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.18.pr

Limits on an Arbiter Imposing Servitudes in Partition

Passage 1713 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In the division of property, an arbiter cannot establish a servitude on inherited land in favor of non-inherited land, since a judge's power cannot exceed the scope of the case brought before the court.

[IAUOLENUS libro secundo epistularum. ] §10.3.18.prUt fundus hereditarius fundo non hereditario seruiat, arbiter disponere non potest, quia ultra id quod in iudicium deductum est excedere potestas iudicis non potest.
[IAUOLENUS, Letters, book II.] An arbiter cannot arrange that an estate belonging to the inheritance should be subject to a servitude to an estate not belonging to the inheritance, because the power of a judge cannot exceed that which has been brought into court.

Notes

  1. §10.3.18.prUt fundus ... seruiat — The ut clause with the present subjunctive seruiat functions as a noun clause explaining the content of the verb disponere (to arrange, to dispose).
  2. §10.3.18.prin iudicium deductum est — A legal formulaic expression meaning "brought into court" or "submitted to judgment," referring here to the scope of the property subject to the division suit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.18.pr

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