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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.1.10.pr

Construction Work Necessary for Exercising a Right of Way

Passage 1358 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Proculus' opinion that if a right of way is bequeathed which cannot be used without construction work, it is permitted to create a path by digging and building a substructure.

[IDEM libro octauo decimo digestorum. ] §8.1.10.prSi iter legatum sit, qua nisi opere facto iri non possit, licere fodiendo substruendo iter facere Proculus ait.
[THE SAME in the eighteenth book of the Digests.] Proculus says that if a right of way is bequeathed, through which it is impossible to pass unless construction work is done, it is permitted to make a path by digging and building a substructure.

Notes

  1. §8.1.10.priri non possit — The passive present infinitive iri of the verb eo (to go) is used impersonally with possit, meaning 'it cannot be gone' (i.e., 'it is impossible to pass').
  2. §8.1.10.propere facto — An ablative absolute consisting of the noun opus (work) and the perfect participle factus. Accompanied by the conjunction nisi (unless), it expresses a condition ('unless work is done').
  3. §8.1.10.prfodiendo substruendo — Ablatives of the gerund from the verbs fodio (to dig) and substruo (to build a substructure), expressing the means ('by digging and by building a substructure').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.1.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.1.10.pr

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