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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.4.1.pr

Invalidity of Revoking Footpath from Bequeathed Driveway

Passage 5233 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the legal principle that attempting to revoke the right of passage from a bequeathed right of driving is ineffective and revokes nothing.

[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §34.4.1.prQui actu legato iter adimat, nihil adimit, quia numquam actus sine itinere esse potest.
[PAULUS in the third book on Sabinus.] He who takes away the right of passage from a bequeathed right of driving takes away nothing, because a right of driving can never exist without a right of passage.

Notes

  1. §34.4.1.practu legato — actu is the dative form of the fourth-declension noun actus, functioning as a dative of separation (dativus separationis) governed by the verb adimat (present subjunctive of adimere). In the law of servitudes, since the actus (right of driving) inherently includes the iter (right of passage), it is conceptually impossible to revoke only the iter from a bequeathed actus, making such an attempted partial revocation void.
  2. §34.4.1.pradimat — Present subjunctive. It is used in both the relative clause Qui ... adimat and the main clause nihil adimat to express a hypothetical or potential condition ('he who should take away... would take away...').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.4.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.4.1.pr

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