[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo ad edictum. ] §43.20.1.25Si fundum, ad quem aquam ducebas, uendideris et tradideris, nihilo minus interdictum tibi utile est.
If you have sold and delivered the estate to which you were drawing water, nonetheless the beneficial interdict is available to you.
§43.20.1.26Competit hoc interdictum aduersus eum, qui prohibet me aquam ducere, et nihil interest, utrum quis dominium fundi habeat an non.
This interdict is available against him who prevents me from drawing water, and it makes no difference whether someone has the ownership of the estate or not.
idcircoque is tenetur interdicto: nam et si seruitus coepit aduersus quemuis posse uindicari.
Therefore, he is bound by the interdict; for once a servitude has begun to exist, it can be vindicated against anyone.
§43.20.1.27Si inter riuales, id est qui per eundem riuum aquam ducunt, sit contentio de aquae usu, utroque suum usum esse contendente, duplex interdictum utrique competit.
If there is a dispute concerning the use of water between rivals, that is, those who draw water through the same channel, each contending that the use is his own, a double interdict is available to both.
§43.20.1.28Labeo putat per hoc interdictum prohiberi quem, ne quid in illo fundo faciat fodiat serat succidat putet aedificet, quare ex re ea aqua, quam ille hoc anno per fundum tuum sine uitio duxit, inquinetur uitietur corrumpatur deteriorue fiat: et similiter de aestiua aqua debere interdici ait.
Labeo thinks that by this interdict anyone is prohibited from doing, digging, sowing, cutting down, pruning, or building anything on that estate, whereby from that act the water, which he has drawn in this year through your estate without defect, is polluted, damaged, spoiled, or deteriorated; and he says that an interdict ought to be granted similarly concerning summer water.
§43.20.1.29Si quis hoc cesserit, ne liceat sibi aquam quaerere, ea cessio ualet.
If anyone has yielded this, that it is not permitted for him to search for water, that yield is valid.
§43.20.1.30Deinde ait praetor: 'Uti priore aestate aquam, qua de agitur, nec ui nec clam nec precario ab illo duxisti, quo minus ita ducas, uim fieri ueto.
Then the praetor says: 'As you have drawn the water in question in the preceding summer from that person neither by force, nor secretly, nor by permission, I forbid force to be used to prevent you from drawing it in this manner.
inter heredes emptores et bonorum possessores interdicam'. §43.20.1.31Hoc interdictum de aqua aestiua proponitur.
I shall grant an interdict between heirs, buyers, and possessors of goods.' This interdict is proposed concerning summer water.
§43.20.1.32Quia autem diximus aestiuam aquam aliquo distare ab aqua cottidiana, sciendum est etiam interdictis distare, quod qui de aqua cottidiana interdicit, ita interdicit: 'uti hoc anno aquam duxisti', at qui de aestiua, sic: 'uti priore aestate', nec immerito: nam quia hieme non utitur, referre se non ad praesentem aestatem, sed ad priorem debuit.
But since we have said that summer water differs in some respect from daily water, it should be known that it also differs in the interdicts, because he who grants an interdict concerning daily water does so in this way: 'as you have drawn water in this year', but he who does so concerning summer water, in this way: 'as in the preceding summer', and not without reason; for since he does not use it in winter, he had to refer himself not to the present summer, but to the preceding one.
§43.20.1.33Aestatem incipere (sic peritiores tradiderunt) ab aequinoctio uerno et finiri aequinoctio autumnali: et ita senis mensibus aestas atque hiems diuiditur.
Summer begins (as the more learned have handed down) from the vernal equinox and ends at the autumnal equinox; and thus summer and winter are divided into six months each.
§43.20.1.34Priorem aestatem ex comparatione duarum aestatium accipi.
'The preceding summer' is understood from the comparison of two summers.
§43.20.1.35Propter hoc, si aestate interdicatur, nonnumquam annum et sex menses continere: quod ita contingit, si initio uerni aequinoctii ducta sit aqua et sequenti aestate pridie aequinoctium autumnale interdicatur: et proinde, si hieme interdicatur, etiam in biennium haec res extendetur.
Because of this, if the interdict is sought in summer, it sometimes covers a year and six months; which happens in this way, if water was drawn at the beginning of the vernal equinox and the interdict is sought on the day before the autumnal equinox in the following summer; and likewise, if the interdict is sought in winter, this matter will be extended even to two years.
§43.20.1.36Si quis hieme tantum aquam solitus fuit ducere, aestate non fuit solitus, utile interdictum ei competit.
If anyone has been accustomed to draw water only in winter, and was not accustomed to do so in summer, a beneficial interdict is available to him.
§43.20.1.37Qui hac aestate duxit, non superiore, utile interdictum habet.
He who has drawn water in this summer, but not in the preceding one, has a beneficial interdict.
§43.20.1.38Ait praetor: 'inter heredes et emptores et bonorum possessores interdicam'. haec uerba non solum ad aestiuam aquam, uerum etiam ad cottidianam quoque referenda esse sciendum est: nam sicuti de itinere actuque et successoribus dantur interdicta et emptori, ita haec quoque danda praetor putauit.
The praetor says: 'I shall grant an interdict between heirs and buyers and possessors of goods.' It must be known that these words are to be referred not only to summer water, but also to daily water as well; for just as interdicts are given to successors and to a buyer concerning a right of way and driving cattle, so also the praetor thought these ought to be given.
§43.20.1.39Ait praetor: 'Quo ex castello illi aquam ducere ab eo, cui eius rei ius fuit, permissum est, quo minus ita uti permissum est ducat, uim fieri ueto.
The praetor says: 'From whichever reservoir it has been permitted to him to draw water by him who had the right of that matter, I forbid force to be used to prevent him from drawing it as it was permitted.
quandoque de opere faciendo interdictum erit, damni infecti caueri iubebo'. §43.20.1.40Hoc interdictum necessario propositum est.
Whenever there is an interdict concerning the execution of work, I shall order security to be given against threatened damage.' This interdict was proposed of necessity.
namque superiora interdicta ad eos pertinent, qui a capite ducunt uel imposita seruitute uel quia putant impositam: aequissimum uisum est ei quoque, qui ex castello ducit, interdictum dari.
For the preceding interdicts pertain to those who draw from the source either because a servitude has been imposed or because they think it has been imposed; it seemed most equitable that an interdict be given also to him who draws from a reservoir.
id est ex eo receptaculo, quod aquam publicam suscipit.
Understand 'reservoir' as that receptacle which receives public water.
castellum accipe.
If it has been permitted from a reservoir, the interdict must be given.
§43.20.1.41Si ex castello permissum est, dandum erit interdictum: Permittitur autem aquam ex castello uel ex riuo uel ex quo alio loco publico ducere.
Moreover, it is permitted to draw water from a reservoir, or from a channel, or from any other public place.
§43.20.1.42Idque a principe conceditur: alii nulli competit ius aquae dandae.
And this is granted by the emperor; to no other person belongs the right of granting water.
§43.20.1.43Et datur interdum praediis, interdum personis.
And it is granted sometimes to estates, sometimes to persons.
quod praediis datur, persona extincta non extinguitur: quod datur personis, cum personis amittitur ideoque neque ad alium dominum praediorum neque ad heredem uel qualemcumque successorem transit.
What is granted to estates is not extinguished when the person dies; what is granted to persons is lost with the persons, and therefore passes neither to another owner of the estates nor to an heir or successor of any kind.
plane ei, ad quem dominium transit, impetrabile est: nam si docuerit praediis suis aquam debitam, etsi nomine eius fluxisse, a quo dominium ad se transiit, indubitate impetrat ius aquae ducendae, nec est hoc beneficium, sed iniuria, si quis forte non impetrauerit.
Clearly, it can be obtained by him to whom ownership passes; for if he has proved that water is owed to his estates, even though it had flowed in the name of him from whom ownership passed to him, he undoubtedly obtains the right of drawing water; and it is not a favor, but an injury, if by chance anyone should not obtain it.
§43.20.1.44Meminisse autem debemus in hoc interdicto totam quaestionem finiri adsignationis: non enim praeparat hoc interdictum causam, ut superiora interdicta, nec ad possessionem temporariam pertinet, sed aut habet ius adsignatum sibi aut non habet, et interdictum totum finitur.
However, we must remember that in this interdict the entire question of assignment is decided; for this interdict does not prepare a case as the preceding interdicts do, nor does it pertain to temporary possession, but either he has the right assigned to him or he does not, and the whole interdict is completed.