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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.5.5.pr

Prohibition of Extinguishing or Imposing Servitudes on Dotal Land

Passage 3496 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian cites Julian's view that a husband can neither extinguish servitudes beneficial to a dotal land nor impose new servitudes upon it.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo de omnibus tribunalibus. ] §23.5.5.prIulianus libro sexto decimo digestorum scripsit neque seruitutes fundo debitas posse maritum remittere neque ei alias imponere.
[ULPIAN, On All Tribunals, Book II.] Julian wrote in the sixteenth book of his Digests that a husband can neither release servitudes owed to a land nor impose other servitudes upon it.

Notes

  1. §23.5.5.prfundo debitas — The participle debitas, with the dative fundo, means servitudes "owed to the land," i.e., those established for the benefit of the land (the dominant tenement).
  2. §23.5.5.prposse maritum remittere ... imponere — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction introduced by scripsit. maritum is the subject accusative of the infinitive posse (which governs remittere and imponere). The correlative neque ... neque ... indicates that the husband can perform neither action.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.5.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.5.5.pr

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