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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.2.22.pr

Servitude Securing Present and Future Light Openings

Passage 1390 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States that a building owner can impose a servitude on a neighbor to provide security for both current and future light openings.

[IULIANUS libro secundo ex Minicio. ] §8.2.22.prQui aedificium habet, potest seruitutem uicino imponere, ut non solum de his luminibus, quae in praesentia erunt, sed etiam de his quae postea fuerint, caueat.
[JULIANUS, in the second book on Minicius.] He who has a building can impose a servitude on his neighbor, so that he should provide security not only for those lights which exist at present, but also for those which may exist hereafter.

Notes

  1. §8.2.22.prut ... caueat — A subjunctive clause introduced by ut, defining the content of the obligation imposed on the neighbor by the servitude (seruitutem imponere). The subject of caueat (third-person singular present subjunctive of cauere) is uicino (neighbor), indicating the act of providing a legal guarantee (cavere).
  2. §8.2.22.prpostea fuerint — fuerint is the third-person plural future perfect indicative of esse. It stands in contrast with the future indicative in praesentia erunt (which exist at present), referring to a state that will have come into existence at some future point.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.2.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.2.22.pr

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