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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.4.5.pr

Reservation of Servitude for Third Parties or Common Land

Passage 1452 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In response to whether a servitude can be established for oneself and a neighbor or partner when selling sole or common land, it is answered that the addition of a neighbor is superfluous and a single partner cannot acquire a servitude for common land.

[IDEM libro secundo epistularum. ] §8.4.5.prProprium solum uendendo an seruitutem talem iniungere possim, ut mihi et uicino seruiat? similiter si commune solum uendo, ut mihi et socio seruiat, an consequi possim? respondi: seruitutem recipere nisi sibi nemo potest: adiectio itaque uicini pro superuacuo habenda est, ita ut tota seruitus ad eum, qui receperit, pertineat.
[THE SAME, Letters, Book 2.] Whether, in selling my own land, I can impose such a servitude that it should serve myself and my neighbor? Similarly, if I sell common land, can I achieve that it should serve myself and my partner? I answered: no one can acquire a servitude except for himself; therefore, the addition of the neighbor must be regarded as superfluous, so that the entire servitude belongs to him who acquired it.
solum autem commune uendendo ut mihi et socio seruiat, efficere non possum, quia per unum socium communi solo seruitus adquiri non potest.
However, by selling common land, I cannot bring it about that it should serve myself and my partner, because a servitude cannot be acquired for common land through only one partner.

Notes

  1. §8.4.5.pruendendo — Ablative of the gerund, expressing the means or circumstance ('by selling' or 'in selling').
  2. §8.4.5.prnisi sibi nemo — Used with the negative pronoun nemo, expressing an exclusive limitation ('no one except for oneself'). sibi is a dative of advantage.
  3. §8.4.5.prcommuni solo — Dative of reference or advantage depending on the passive infinitive adquiri, meaning that a servitude is acquired 'for (the benefit of) the common land'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.4.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.4.5.pr

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