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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.3.11.pr

Individual Grant of a Right of Way over Common Land

Passage 1420 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the separate grant of a servitude of passage and driving over commonly owned land, Celsus presents the strict rule requiring all co-owners to agree for it to be validated, contrasted with an equitable view that forbids those who have already granted it from obstructing its use.

[CELSUS libro uicensimo septimo digestorum. ] §8.3.11.prPer fundum, qui plurium est, ius mihi esse eundi agendi potest separatim cedi.
[CELSUS, Digests, Book 27] Through land which belongs to several persons, the existence of a right for me to walk and drive can be granted separately.
ergo suptili ratione non aliter meum fiet ius, quam si omnes cedant et nouissima demum cessione superiores omnes confirmabuntur: benignius tamen dicetur et antequam nouissimus cesserit, eos, qui antea cesserunt, uetare uti cesso iure non posse.
Therefore, by strict reasoning, the right will not become mine otherwise than if all make the grant, and only by the very last grant will all the preceding ones be confirmed. However, it will be more equitably held that, even before the last person has made the grant, those who have already made their grants cannot forbid [the grantee] from using the right thus granted.

Notes

  1. §8.3.11.prius mihi esse eundi agendi — This is an accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) clause functioning as the subject of the passive verb phrase `potest cedi`. `mihi` is a dative of possession, and `eundi agendi` are genitives of the gerund modifying `ius`, referring respectively to the servitudes of passage (*iter*) and driving (*actus*).
  2. §8.3.11.prsuperiores omnes — Feminine plural nominative, agreeing with the implied noun `cessiones` (previous grants) understood from the preceding `cessione`. It functions as the subject of the verb `confirmabuntur`.
  3. §8.3.11.pruetare uti cesso iure non posse — An indirect statement (AcI) depending on `benignius tamen dicetur`. The subject accusative of `non posse` is `eos` (the co-owners who granted earlier). `uetare` takes an implied accusative (the grantee) as its object along with the infinitive `uti` ("to forbid to use"). `cesso iure` is an ablative governed by the deponent verb `uti`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.3.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.3.11.pr

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