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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.2.19.pr-8.2.19.2

Installation of Baths by Common Walls and Moisture Damage

Passage 1387 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the lawfulness of installing pipes and baths along a common wall and the remedy when moisture from a warm room injures a neighbor, while also defining the requirements for placing vaults and stairs next to a common wall.

[PAULUS libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §8.2.19.prFistulam iunctam parieti communi, quae aut ex castello aut ex caelo aquam capit, non iure haberi Proculus ait: sed non posse prohiberi uicinum, quo minus balineum habeat secundum parietem communem, quamuis umorem capiat paries: non magis quam si uel in triclinio suo uel in cubiculo aquam effunderet.
[PAULUS in the sixth book on Sabinus.] Proculus says that it is not lawful to have a pipe attached to a common wall, which takes water either from a reservoir or from the sky; but that a neighbor cannot be prevented from having a bath along the common wall, even though the wall absorbs moisture; no more than if he were to spill water in his dining room or bedroom.
sed Neratius ait, si talis sit usus tepidarii, ut adsiduum umorem habeat et id noceat uicino, posse prohiberi eum.
But Neratius says that if the use of a warm room is such that it causes constant moisture and this injures the neighbor, he can be prevented.
§8.2.19.1Iuxta communem parietem cameram ex figlino opere factam, si ita retineatur, ut etiam sublato pariete maneat, si modo non impediat refectionem communis parietis, iure haberi licet.
It is lawful to have a vault made of pottery work next to a common wall, if it is supported in such a way that it remains even if the wall is removed, provided that it does not impede the repair of the common wall.
§8.2.19.2Scalas posse me ad parietem communem habere Sabinus recte scribit, quia remoueri hae possunt.
Sabinus rightly writes that I can have stairs against a common wall, because these can be removed.

Notes

  1. §8.2.19.prnon iure haberi — An accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction, with 'fistulam' as the subject accusative and 'haberi' as the passive infinitive. 'iure' is an ablative of manner meaning 'by right' or 'lawfully'. Literally: 'that a pipe is not held lawfully'.
  2. §8.2.19.prquo minus — A conjunction (quominus) introducing a subjunctive clause after a verb of preventing (prohiberi). 'uicinum' is the logical subject of the clause, and 'habeat' is in the present subjunctive.
  3. §8.2.19.1si modo non impediat — The word 'modo' introduces a restrictive conditional clause, taking the subjunctive ('impediat'). It means 'provided that it does not impede' or 'as long as it does not prevent'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.2.19.pr-8.2.19.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.2.19.pr-8.2.19.2

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