[UENULEIUS libro primo interdictorum. ] §43.23.2.prQuamquam de reficienda cloaca, non etiam de noua facienda hoc interdicto comprehendatur, tamen aeque interdicendum Labeo ait, ne facienti cloacam uis fiat, quia eadem utilitas sit: praetorem enim sic interdixisse, ne uis fieret, quo minus cloacam in publico facere liceret: idque Ofilio et Trebatio placuisse.
[VENULEIUS, from the first book on interdicts.] this interdict covers the repair of a sewer, but not also the construction of a new one, Labeo nevertheless says that an interdict should equally be issued to prevent force from being used against one constructing a sewer, since there is the same utility; for the praetor did indeed issue an interdict to prevent force from being used to obstruct the right to construct a sewer in a public place, and this opinion pleased Ofilius and Trebatius.
ipse dicendum ait, ut ne factam cloacam purgare et restituere permittendum sit per interdictum, nouam uero facere is demum concedere debeat, cui uiarum publicarum cura sit.
But he himself says that it should be laid down that, while the cleaning and repairing of an already constructed sewer is to be permitted by the interdict, the construction of a new one ought to be granted only by him who has the care of the public streets.