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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.2.41.pr

Priority of Repair Rights for Common Walls and Paths

Passage 6165 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius outlines that in repairing common property such as a wall, passageway, or channel, the permission to build should be granted preferentially to the co-owner who is willing to repair it more suitably.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §39.2.41.prIn reficiendo communi pariete ei potius facultas aedificandi praestatur, qui magis idonee reficere parietem uelit.
[POMPONIUS in the twenty-first book on Sabinus.] In repairing a common wall, the opportunity of building is granted rather to him who wishes to repair the wall more suitably.
idemque dicendum est et si de eodem itinere riuoue reficiendo inter duos uel plures quaeratur.
And the same must be said even if a question arises between two or more persons concerning the repair of the same passageway or channel.

Notes

  1. §39.2.41.pritinere riuoue reficiendo — A gerundive construction where the gerundive `reficiendo` agrees with the ablative nouns `itinere riuoue` governed by the preposition `de`, expressing the action of "repairing the same passageway or channel."
  2. §39.2.41.prquaeratur — The third-person singular present subjunctive passive of the verb `quaerere`, used here impersonally within the conditional `si` clause to mean "a question arises" or "a dispute is raised" (between the parties).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.2.41.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.2.41.pr

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