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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.19.7.pr

Interdicts and Passage without Possession of a Right

Passage 7109 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

An interdict regarding passage is not available to someone who traversed land without claiming it as a right and would have stopped if forbidden, because the applicability of this interdict requires having possessed a right.

[CELSUS libro uicensimo quinto digestorum. ] §43.19.7.prSi per fundum tuum nec ui nec clam nec precario commeauit aliquis, non tamen tamquam id suo iure faceret, sed, si prohiberetur, non facturus, inutile est ei interdictum de itinere actuque: nam ut hoc interdictum competat, ius fundi possedisse oportet.
[CELSUS from the twenty-fifth book of the Digests.] If someone has passed through your land neither by force, nor secretly, nor by permission, yet not as if he were doing so by his own right, but rather as one who, if he were forbidden, would not do so, the interdict concerning passage and driving is of no use to him; for in order that this interdict may apply, it is necessary to have possessed a right over the land.

Notes

  1. §43.19.7.prnec ui nec clam nec precario — A standard legal phrase indicating the absence of the three major defects of possession: force, secrecy, and precarious permission. The absence of these is a prerequisite for interdictal protection.
  2. §43.19.7.prnon facturus — A future active participle in the nominative case modifying aliquis. It expresses a conditional intention ("would not do so") corresponding to the conditional clause si prohiberetur (imperfect subjunctive).
  3. §43.19.7.prius fundi possedisse — An infinitive phrase serving as the subject of the impersonal verb oportet. possedisse is a perfect infinitive, meaning the establishment of the "possession of a right" (quasi-possessio) over the land.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.19.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.19.7.pr

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