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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.20.2.pr

Exercise of Water Rights Restricted to Specific Hours

Passage 7113 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a person who has the right to draw water restricted to specific day or night hours cannot draw water at any other hour.

[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §43.20.2.prSi diurnarum aut nocturnarum horarum aquae ductum habeam, non possum alia hora ducere, quam qua ius habeam ducendi.
[POMPONIUS in the thirty-second book on Sabinus.] If I should have a right to draw water for day or night hours, I cannot draw it at any other hour than that at which I have the right of drawing.

Notes

  1. §43.20.2.prdiurnarum aut nocturnarum horarum — These are genitives modifying the noun phrase 'aquae ductum' (the right of drawing water), indicating the restriction of the time (day or night hours) during which the water may be drawn.
  2. §43.20.2.pralia hora... quam qua — The construction is 'alia... quam...' (other... than...), where the relative pronoun 'qua' refers to the antecedent 'hora' in the ablative of time ('at which'). Thus, it literally means 'at another hour than [that] at which I have the right of drawing'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.20.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.20.2.pr

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