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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.7.5.pr-47.7.5.2

Definitions of Tree Damage and Standing to Sue

Passage 7973 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus defines various acts of damaging trees and states that the legal basis for this action is the same as that of the Lex Aquilia, while clarifying that a holder of a vectigalis land has this action but a usufructuary does not.

[PAULUS libro nono ad Sabinum. ] §47.7.5.prCaedere est non solum succidere, sed etiam ferire caedendi causa.
[PAULUS on Sabinus, book 9] To fell is not only to cut down, but also to strike for the purpose of felling.
cingere est deglabrare.
To gird is to strip the bark.
subsecare est subsecuisse: non enim poterat cecidisse intellegi, qui serra secuisset.
To cut from below is to have cut underneath; for he who had cut with a saw could not be understood to have felled.
§47.7.5.1Eius actionis eadem causa est, quae est legis Aquiliae.
The cause of this action is the same as that of the Lex Aquilia.
§47.7.5.2Is, cuius usus fructus est in fundo, hanc actionem non habet: qui autem fundum uectigalem habet, hanc actionem habet, sicut aquae pluuiae arcendae actionem et finium regundorum.
He who has the usufruct in a land does not have this action; but he who holds a vectigalis land has this action, just as he has the action for warding off rainwater and the action for regulating boundaries.

Notes

  1. §47.7.5.prcecidisse intellegi — This is a personal passive construction (nominativus cum infinitivo) where the subject of the passive verb poterat intellegi is the implied antecedent (is) of the relative clause qui serra secuisset. Consequently, the subject of the active perfect infinitive cecidisse is identical to the subject of the sentence (the one who cut with a saw).
  2. §47.7.5.2finium regundorum — In the clause introduced by sicut, aquae pluuiae arcendae actionem is coordinated with [actionem] finium regundorum, with actionem being omitted in the latter. Both phrases exhibit the genitive gerundive construction, where the gerundive agrees with the noun in gender, number, and case.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.7.5.pr-47.7.5.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.7.5.pr-47.7.5.2

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