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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.19.5.pr-43.19.5.4

Application of the Repair Interdict to Successors and Security

Passage 7107 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that preventing materials from being piled up constitutes force and restricts unreasonable routes, while affirming that this interdict applies to successors, purchasers, long-term de facto servitude holders, and requires security for defects.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo ad edictum. ] §43.19.5.prApparet ergo eum, qui non patitur haec congeri, uim facere, quo minus quis perficiat. §43.19.5.1Plane si quis, cum posset alia parte agri sine incommodo domini fundi impensam adportare, id egit, ut alia parte adportet, impune ei uim fieri recte placuit. §43.19.5.2Hoc interdictum non solum ipsi, uerum successoribus quoque esse dandum non est ambigendum: emptori quoque dabitur et in emptorem. §43.19.5.3Si quis seruitutem iure impositam non habeat, habeat autem uelut longae possessionis praerogatiuam ex eo, quod diu usus est seruitute, interdicto hoc uti potest. §43.19.5.4Qui hoc interdicto usurus est, de uitio operis cauere aduersario debet.
[ULPIAN, from the twentieth book on the Edict.]\n\nTherefore, it is clear that he who does not allow these things to be piled up is using force to prevent someone from completing the work.\n\nClearly, if anyone, although he could have brought in the materials through another part of the field without inconvenience to the owner of the estate, has managed to bring them through a different part, it has been rightly held that force may be used against him with impunity.\n\nThere is no doubt that this interdict must be granted not only to the person himself, but also to his successors; it will also be granted to a purchaser and against a purchaser.\n\nIf anyone does not have a servitude established by law, but has, as it were, the privilege of long possession from the fact that he has used the servitude for a long time, he can make use of this interdict.\n\nHe who is about to use this interdict must give security to his adversary regarding any defect in the work.

Notes

  1. §43.19.5.pruim facere, quo minus quis perficiat — The conjunction 'quo minus' with the subjunctive 'perficiat' depends on 'uim facere' (to use force), forming a clause of prevention ('to use force to prevent someone from completing the work'). 'quis' is an indefinite pronoun, here referring generally to anyone attempting the repair.
  2. §43.19.5.1cum posset — A cum clause with the imperfect subjunctive 'posset', here used in a concessive sense ('although he could have...'). It highlights that another course of action was available, in contrast with 'id egit, ut...'.
  3. §43.19.5.1id egit, ut — The idiom 'id agere ut' with the subjunctive expresses intention or endeavor ('to manage to', 'to act so as to'). Here it indicates a deliberate action to choose a route that causes inconvenience.
  4. §43.19.5.3uelut longae possessionis praerogatiuam ex eo, quod diu usus est seruitute — The phrase 'ex eo, quod...' (from the fact that...) explains the basis for the 'privilege of long possession, as it were' (uelut longae possessionis praerogatiuam), acquired through long-term de facto use (diu usus est) despite the lack of a legally established servitude. 'uelut' (as it were) qualifies the metaphorical application of possessory rights to a de facto state.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.19.5.pr-43.19.5.4. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.19.5.pr-43.19.5.4

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