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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.6.8.pr-8.6.8.1

Extinction of Servitudes by Consent and Partial Use

Passage 1494 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses cases where a right of discharging rainwater or a right of way is lost through permission granted to the other party, and states that using part of a route counts as exercising the whole right.

[IDEM libro quinto decimo ad Plautium. ] §8.6.8.prSi stillicidii immittendi ius habeam in aream tuam et permisero ius tibi in ea area aedificandi, stillicidii immittendi ius amitto.
[THE SAME, from the fifteenth book on Plautius.] If I have the right of discharging rainwater into your ground, and I permit you the right of building on that ground, I lose the right of discharging rainwater.
et similiter si per tuum fundum uia mihi debeatur et permisero tibi in eo loce, per quem uia mihi debetur, aliquid facere, amitto ius uiae.
And similarly, if a right of way through your land is owed to me, and I permit you to do something in that place through which the right of way is owed to me, I lose the right of way.
§8.6.8.1Is qui per partem itineris it totum ius usurpare uidetur.
He who goes through a part of the route is deemed to exercise the whole right.

Notes

  1. 8.6.8.prpermisero — Future perfect indicative. It indicates an action in the conditional clause that chronologically precedes or determines the state of affairs in the main clause (here amitto, "I lose").
  2. 8.6.8.praedificandi — Genitive of the gerund, modifying the noun ius ("right"). "The right of building."
  3. 8.6.8.prin eo loce — loce is a manuscript variant or scribal error for loco (ablative singular of locus, "place"). Since the preposition in governs the ablative here, it is grammatically understood as in eo loco.
  4. 8.6.8.1usurpare — Here, it does not mean "to usurp" in the modern sense, but is used as a Roman legal term meaning "to exercise, maintain, or preserve (a right)" to prevent the loss of the servitude by non-use.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.6.8.pr-8.6.8.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.6.8.pr-8.6.8.1

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