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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.5.1.pr

Parties Entitled to Servitude Actions and Access to Tombs

Passage 1466 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that actions concerning rustic or urban servitudes belong to the owners of the estates, and notes that although tombs are exempt from private ownership, a right of way to them can still be claimed.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto decimo ad edictum. ] §8.5.1.prActiones de seruitutibus rusticis siue urbanis eorum sunt, quorum praedia sunt: sepulchra autem nostri dominii non sunt: adquin uiam ad sepulchrum possumus uindicare.
[ULPIANUS, book 14 on the Edict] Actions concerning rustic or urban servitudes belong to those whose estates they are; but tombs are not of our ownership; nevertheless, we can claim a right of way to a tomb.

Notes

  1. §8.5.1.preorum sunt, quorum praedia sunt — A combination of the possessive genitive eorum with the relative pronoun quorum, meaning "belong to those whose estates they are" (literally, "are of those of whom the estates are").
  2. §8.5.1.prnostri dominii — A genitive of possession used predicatively. It reflects the Roman legal principle that tombs (sepulchra), as religious things (res religiosae), are excluded from private ownership (dominium) and are extra patrimonium.
  3. §8.5.1.pruindicare — Refers to bringing a proprietary claim (vindicatio), specifically to assert the existence of a servitude (vindicatio servitutis). While the tomb itself cannot be owned privately, the right of way (via) serving as a servitude to access it remains claimable.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.5.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.5.1.pr

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