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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.20.4.pr

Granting Water Rights to Multiple Persons and Analogous Actions

Passage 7115 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The response of Julianus concerning whether the right to draw water through the same conduit can be granted to multiple persons, and the granting of an analogous action if they disagree on its use.

[IULIANUS libro quadragensimo primo digestorum. ] §43.20.4.prLucio Titio ex fonte meo ut aquam duceret, cessi: quaesitum est, an et Maeuio cedere possim, ut per eundem aquae ductum aquam ducat: et si putaueris posse cedi per eundem aquae ductum duobus, quemadmodum uti debeant.
[JULIANUS in the forty-first book of the Digests.] I granted permission to Lucius Titius to draw water from my spring; the question arose whether I could also grant permission to Maevius to draw water through the same water conduit, and if you should think that it can be granted to two persons through the same water conduit, how they ought to use it.
respondit: sicut iter actus uia pluribus cedi uel simul uel separatim potest, ita aquae ducendae ius recte cedetur.
He answered: just as the right of way, of driving, and of road can be granted to several persons either simultaneously or separately, so the right of drawing water will be rightfully granted.
sed si inter eos, quibus aqua cessa est, non conuenit, quemadmodum utantur, non erit iniquum utile iudicium reddi, sicut inter eos, ad quos usus fructus pertinet, utile communi diuidundo iudicium reddi plerisque placuit.
But if it is not agreed between those to whom the water has been granted how they should use it, it will not be inequitable for an analogous action to be granted, just as it has pleased most jurists that an analogous action for dividing common property be granted between those to whom a usufruct belongs.

Notes

  1. §43.20.4.prputaueris — A second-person singular perfect subjunctive (or future perfect indicative) used in an indefinite or general sense ("if you [one] should think").
  2. §43.20.4.priter actus uia — The three types of rustic servitudes of passage—right of way on foot (iter), right of driving beasts or vehicles (actus), and right of road (uia)—are listed in asyndeton as examples of rights that can be granted to multiple people.
  3. §43.20.4.prutile iudicium reddi — The passive infinitive clause with `utile iudicium` (an analogous or useful action granted by the praetor) as its subject serves as the subject of `non erit iniquum`. Likewise, the phrase `utile communi diuidundo iudicium reddi` (an analogous action for dividing common property) is the subject of `plerisque placuit`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.20.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.20.4.pr

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