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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.8.21.pr

Personal Nature and Non-Inheritability of the Right to Use Water

Passage 1334 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus states that the use of water is personal and therefore cannot be transmitted to the heir of the user.

[MODESTINUS libro secundo regularum. ] §7.8.21.prUsus aquae personalis est et ideo ad heredem usuarii transmitti non potest.
[MODESTINUS, in the second book of Rules.] The use of water is personal, and therefore cannot be transmitted to the heir of the user.

Notes

  1. §7.8.21.prpersonalis — An adjective meaning "personal" or "attached to the person." In this legal context, it describes a right that is inherent to the specific individual and cannot be transferred or inherited by anyone else, including their heirs.
  2. §7.8.21.prtransmitti — Present passive infinitive of the verb *transmitto* (to transfer or hand down). Combined with *potest*, it forms the passive potential construction "cannot be transmitted (to the heir)."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §7.8.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:7.8.21.pr

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