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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.18.2.pr

Definition of Superficies and Ownership by the Landowner

Passage 7102 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius defines 'superficiariae aedes' and explains that their ownership belongs to the landowner under both civil and natural law.

[GAIUS libro uicensimo quinto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §43.18.2.prSuperficiarias aedes appellamus, quae in conducto solo positae sunt: quarum proprietas et ciuili et naturali iure eius est, cuius et solum.
[GAIUS, in the twenty-fifth book on the Provincial Edict.] We call 'superficiariae aedes' those buildings which are erected on hired land; the ownership of these, by both civil and natural law, belongs to him to whom the land also belongs.

Notes

  1. §43.18.2.preius est, cuius et solum — eius is a genitive of possession serving as the predicate of the main clause, and the relative pronoun cuius is also a possessive genitive modifying solum within the relative clause. The verb est is omitted in the relative clause. Thus, the phrase means 'belongs to him, to whom the land also [belongs]'. et is used here in the sense of 'also'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.18.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.18.2.pr

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