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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.19.4.pr-43.19.4.1

Bringing Repair Materials and Force against Undue Detours

Passage 7106 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Venuleius argues that explicit additions regarding the protection of those bringing in repair materials are superfluous, and explains that force can be used with impunity against a user who unnecessarily takes a longer route to make the burden of passage worse for the landowner.

[UENULEIUS libro primo interdictorum. ] §43.19.4.prUeteres nominatim adiciebant, ut ea quoque, quae ad refectionem utilia essent, adportanti uis non fieret: quod superuacuum est, quoniam qui adportari non patitur ea, sine quibus refici iter non possit, uim facere uidetur, quo minus reficiatur.
[VENULEIUS, from the first book on Interdicts.] The ancients used to add explicitly that force should not be used against someone bringing in those things as well which were useful for repair; but this is superfluous, since he who does not allow those things to be brought in, without which the path cannot be repaired, is deemed to use force to prevent it from being repaired.
§43.19.4.1Si quis autem, cum posset compendiaria adportare, quae refectioni necessaria sunt longiori itinere uelit adportare, ut deteriorem causam eundi faciat, impune ei uis fiet, quia ipse sibi impedimento sit, quo minus reficiat.
If, however, anyone, although he could bring in what is necessary for the repair by a shorter route, should wish to bring it in by a longer route so as to make the condition of passage more burdensome, force will be used against him with impunity, because he himself is a hindrance to his own repairing.

Notes

  1. §43.19.4.pradportanti — Dative singular of the present participle adportans (one who brings in), functioning as the dative of disadvantage or target of the force (uis non fieret).
  2. §43.19.4.1compendiaria — Feminine ablative singular of the adjective compendiarius (taking a short cut), with the noun via (way, route) understood, functioning as an ablative of route ('by a shorter route').
  3. §43.19.4.1deteriorem causam eundi faciat — eundi is the genitive of the gerund of ire (to go, pass), modifying causa (condition, situation). The whole phrase denotes a purpose of making the condition of passage more burdensome or detrimental to the landowner.
  4. §43.19.4.1sibi impedimento sit — A classic double dative construction combining sibi (dative of disadvantage, 'to himself') and impedimento (dative of purpose/result, 'as a hindrance').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.19.4.pr-43.19.4.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.19.4.pr-43.19.4.1

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