Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.24.22.pr-43.24.22.5
Application to Specific Acts: Encroachment and Plowing
Summary
This section explains the legal treatments under the interdict "concerning force or clandestinely" for various specific acts, including grapevines extending to adjacent land, whether plowing is considered a work, removal of tablets from a door, transport of dung through another's land, projections over tombs, and works done immediately after notice.
Notes
- §43.24.22.prhis — There is a syntactical ambiguity regarding what "his" refers to. It can either mean that the main plants in your land are accessions to "these" roots remaining in my land, or conversely, that the roots in my land become accessions to "them" (the plants in your land). It is more reasonable to adopt the latter interpretation, explaining that the roots in my land become yours (tuas) because they are treated as accessions to the plant that has taken root in your soil.
- §43.24.22.2condemnandum te — Following the conditional clause starting with "si," this is the main clause of the indirect speech containing an accusative with a gerundive (condemnandum [esse] te). A verb of thinking or judging (such as "putat" or "existimat") is omitted, governing this accusative-with-infinitive construction as the consequence of the assumed mutual lawsuit.
- §43.24.22.3ne — A verb such as "sentit" or "ait" is omitted after "Labeo contra." The "ne" clause explains the purpose or the reasoning of Labeo in opposing Trebatius' opinion, with the structure meaning "Labeo holds the contrary opinion, [so as] to prevent even those who merely pass through... from being held liable."
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.24.22.pr-43.24.22.5. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.24.22.pr-43.24.22.5
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