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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.1.17.pr

Indivisibility of Servitudes and Claims by Multiple Heirs

Passage 1365 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius states that a part of various servitudes cannot be the object of an obligation due to their indivisibility, explaining that even if multiple heirs inherit upon a party's death, the claim or liability for the whole remains with each individual heir.

[POMPONIUS libro singulari regularum. ] §8.1.17.prUiae itineris actus aquae ductus pars in obligationem deduci non potest, quia usus eorum indiuisus est: et ideo si stipulator decesserit pluribus heredibus relictis, singuli solidam uiam petunt: et si promissor decesserit pluribus heredibus relictis, a singulis heredibus solida petitio est.
[POMPONIUS in his single book of Rules.] A part of a right of way, a right of passage, a right of driving beasts, or a right of conducting water cannot be brought into an obligation, because the use of them is indivisible. And therefore, if the stipulator dies leaving several heirs, each of them demands the whole right of way; and if the promisor dies leaving several heirs, there is a demand for the whole against each of the heirs.

Notes

  1. §8.1.17.pruiae itineris actus aquae ductus pars — The four genitive nouns (uiae, itineris, actus, aquae ductus) are in parallel relation, all modifying "pars". They represent typical rustic servitudes, and the phrase means that a "part" of these rights cannot be made the object of an obligation due to their indivisible nature.
  2. §8.1.17.pra singulis heredibus — The preposition a with the ablative here denotes the source from whom the performance is to be exacted, effectively meaning "against each of the heirs" in the nominal clause "solida petitio est" (there is a demand for the whole).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.1.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.1.17.pr

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