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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.3.25.pr

Rainwater Action by the Holder of a Right of Way

Passage 6198 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a person who has a right of way can bring an action for warding off rainwater, because damage to the road causes harm to their land.

[IULIANUS libro quinto ex Minucio. ] §39.3.25.prIs, cuius fundo uia debetur, aquae pluuiae arcendae agere potest fundi sui nomine, quoniam deteriore uia facta fundo nocetur.
[JULIANUS in the fifth book from Minucius.] A person to whose land a right of way is owed can bring an action for warding off rainwater in the name of his own land, since by the road being made worse, harm is done to the land.

Notes

  1. §39.3.25.praquae pluuiae arcendae agere — The genitive construction (gerundive) dependent on the verb agere implies the omission of the noun actio, to be understood as agere [actione] aquae pluuiae arcendae, meaning "to bring an action for warding off rainwater."
  2. §39.3.25.prfundo nocetur — Since the verb nocere (to do harm) is intransitive and governs the dative, its passive voice is used impersonally (nocetur), while the object of harm (fundo) remains in the dative case.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.3.25.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.3.25.pr

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