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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.3.4.pr

Predial Nature of Pasturage and Watering Cattle

Passage 1413 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the predial nature of servitudes for pasturing and watering cattle when the estate's income chiefly consists of livestock, and the exception where they are not transferred to buyers or heirs if the testator designated a specific person.

[PAPINIANUS libro secundo responsorum. ] §8.3.4.prPecoris pascendi seruitutes, item ad aquam appellendi, si praedii fructus maxime in pecore consistat, praedii magis quam personae uidetur: si tamen testator personam demonstrauit, cui seruitutem praestari uoluit, emptori uel heredi non eadem praestabitur seruitus.
[PAPINIAN, Responses, Book 2] Servitudes of pasturing cattle, and likewise of driving them to water, if the produce of an estate consists chiefly of cattle, are deemed to belong to the estate rather than to the person; if, however, a testator has designated a specific person to whom he wished the servitude to be granted, the same servitude will not be granted to a buyer or an heir.

Notes

  1. §8.3.4.prad aquam appellendi — Genitive of the gerund from the verb appellere (to drive to). The object, 'cattle' (pecus), is omitted as it is easily supplied from the preceding Pecoris pascendi.
  2. §8.3.4.prpraedii magis quam personae uidetur — The genitives praedii and personae denote belonging or classification (belonging to the estate or to the person). The singular verb uidetur is used despite the plural subject seruitutes at the beginning, treating the concept of servitude generically in the singular.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.3.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.3.4.pr

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