Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.3.14.pr

Impossibility of Granting Incompatible Servitudes Over the Same Place

Passage 1423 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius explains that it is impossible to grant incompatible servitudes, such as a road easement (uia) and a water-conducting easement (aquae ductus), to different individuals over the exact same location on an estate.

[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo secundo ad Quintum Mucium. ] §8.3.14.prPer quem locum uiam alii cessero, per eundem alii aquae ductum cedere non potero: sed et si aquae ductum alii concessero, alii iter per eundem locum uendere uel alias cedere non potero.

[POMPOMIUS, On Quintus Mucius, Book 32] If I have granted a road easement (uia) to one person through a certain place, I shall not be able to grant a right of conducting water (aquae ductus) to another person through the same place; but likewise, if I have granted a right of conducting water to one person, I shall not be able to sell or otherwise grant a right of passage on foot (iter) to another person through the same place.

Notes

8.3.14.prPer quem locum — The relative pronoun qui, agreeing with the noun locum within its own clause, stands at the beginning of a conditional relative clause. It is resumed in the main clause by the demonstrative phrase per eundem (locum), meaning 'through the same place'.
8.3.14.prcessero — The future perfect tense (first-person singular). It is used in accordance with the strict Latin rule of tense sequence to denote an action that must be completed prior to the future state expressed by potero ('I shall not be able') in the main clause. The same applies to concessero in the second sentence.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.3.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.3.14.pr

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