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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.2.25.pr-8.2.25.1

Projections and Raising Party Walls on Slopes

Passage 1393 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text explains the scope of application for the rule regarding projections and presents Sabinus's opinion on raising a common wall among three houses built on uneven ground.

[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §8.2.25.prHoc, quod dictum est de immissis, locum habet ex aedificio alio in aliud: aliter enim supra alienum aedificium superius habere nemo potest.
[POMPONIUS, in the thirty-third book on Sabinus.] This rule, which has been stated concerning projections, applies from one building to another; for otherwise, no one can have an upper structure above another's building.
§8.2.25.1Si ex tribus aedibus in loco impari positis aedes mediae superioribus seruiant aedibus, inferiores autem nulli seruiant, et paries communis, qui sit inter aedes inferiores et medias, altius a domino inferiorum aedium sublatus sit, iure eum altius habiturum Sabinus ait.
If, out of three houses built on uneven ground, the middle house is subject to a servitude in favor of the upper house, but the lower house is subject to none, and the common wall between the lower and middle houses is raised higher by the owner of the lower house, Sabinus says that he will lawfully have it higher.

Notes

  1. §8.2.25.prde immissis — The neuter plural perfect passive participle of immitto used substantivally, referring to things 'inserted' or 'projected' (such as beams or roofs) into a neighbor's wall or airspace.
  2. §8.2.25.1eum altius habiturum — An accusative with infinitive (ACI) construction introduced by the verb of speaking 'ait'. 'eum' is the masculine accusative singular pronoun, acting as the subject accusative of the future active infinitive 'habiturum [esse]', referring back to the owner of the lower house ('dominus'). 'altius' is a comparative adverb. This indicates that the owner will lawfully maintain the wall at the increased height.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.2.25.pr-8.2.25.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.2.25.pr-8.2.25.1

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