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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.5.7.pr-23.5.7.1

Extinction of Servitudes by Merger and Remedies on Dotal Land

Passage 3498 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk discusses the merger and loss of servitudes attached to dotal land due to the husband's acquisition of the servient land or the constitution of such land as dowry, along with the legal remedies (useful actions and the judge's office) available to restore them.

[IULIANUS libro sexto decimo digestorum. ] §23.5.7.prSi maritus fundum Titii seruientem dotali praedio adquisierit, seruitus confunditur et hoc casu maritus litis aestimationem praestabit: quod si maritus soluendo non erit, utiles actiones aduersus Titium mulieri ad restaurandam seruitutem dantur.
[JULIANUS, Digest, Book XVI.] If a husband acquires Titius's land which owes a servitude to dotal land, the servitude is merged, and in this case the husband shall pay the estimated value of the suit; but if the husband is not solvent, useful actions are granted to the woman against Titius to restore the servitude.
§23.5.7.1Sed cum uxor fundum cui praedia uiri seruitutem debebant in dotem dat, fundus ad maritum peruenit amissa seruitute et ideo non potest uideri per maritum ius fundi deterius factum.
But when a wife gives in dowry a land to which the husband's lands owed a servitude, the land comes to the husband with the servitude lost, and therefore the right of the land cannot be seen to have been made worse by the husband.
quid ergo est? officio de dote iudicantis continebitur, ut redintegrata seruitute iubeat fundum mulieri uel heredi eius reddi.
What then is the case? It will be contained in the office of the judge of the dowry that, having restored the servitude, he should order the land to be returned to the woman or her heir.

Notes

  1. §23.5.7.prsoluendo — The dative of the gerundive (or gerund), which combined with the copula 'esse' (here 'erit') forms the idiomatic expression 'soluendo esse' meaning 'to be solvent' or 'capable of paying'.
  2. §23.5.7.1cui praedia uiri seruitutem debebant — The relative pronoun 'cui' in the dative case refers to the antecedent 'fundum' (the land given in dowry) and is governed by 'debebant'. The subject is the plural noun phrase 'praedia uiri' (the husband's lands).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.5.7.pr-23.5.7.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.5.7.pr-23.5.7.1

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