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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.6.22.pr

Use of a Way as an Established Right of Way

Passage 1508 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Scaevola begins a rule concerning anyone who has used a path as if they had a legally established right of way.

[SCAEUOLA libro primo regularum. ] §8.6.22.prDenique quicumque quasi debita uia usus fuerit,
[SCAEVOLA, from the first book of Rules.] Finally, whoever has used a way as though it were due [to him],

Notes

  1. 8.6.22.prdebita uia — The perfect passive participle debita (from debeo, to owe) modifies the noun uia (way, right of way), indicating a path that is legally due or owed, such as under a servitude. The phrase is in the ablative case as the object of the deponent verb utor (usus fuerit).

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