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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.1.13.pr

Classification of Rights of Way on Narrow Land

Passage 1361 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The passage discusses whether a right of way granted over a very narrow piece of land is determined to be a right of footway or a right of driving, depending on whether vehicles or beasts can pass.

[POMPONIUS libro quarto decimo ad Quintum Mucium. ] §8.1.13.prSi tam angusti loci demonstratione facta uia concessa fuerit, ut neque uehiculum neque iumentum ea inire possit, iter magis quam uia aut actus adquisitus uidebitur: sed si iumentum ea duci poterit, non etiam uehiculum, actus uidebitur adquisitus.
[POMPONIUS in the fourteenth book on Quintus Mucius.] If a way has been granted after a designation of so narrow a place that neither a vehicle nor a beast of burden can enter it, it will seem that a right of footway rather than a way or a right of driving has been acquired; but if a beast of burden can be driven through it, though not also a vehicle, a right of driving will seem to have been acquired.

Notes

  1. §8.1.13.prdemonstratione facta — Ablative absolute construction. The genitive phrase "tam angusti loci" modifies "demonstratione", setting up the condition: "a designation of so narrow a place having been made."
  2. §8.1.13.prea — The feminine singular ablative of the demonstrative pronoun "is", used adverbially to indicate route or direction: "by that way" or "through it."
  3. §8.1.13.pradquisitus — Although the grammatical subject is the neuter noun "iter", the predicate participle "adquisitus" is masculine singular due to attraction to the nearby masculine noun "actus" which is also part of the subject disjunction.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.1.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.1.13.pr

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