Digestorum libri
Ex libro VII
Julianus, Digest, Book VII. Where a party to whom an usufruct was delivered in compliance with the terms of a trust, has ceased to use it for such a time as would have caused him to lose it if it had become his lawfully, he should not be granted an action for restitution; for it is absurd that parties who have only obtained possession of an usufruct and not the ownership of the same, should have the better right.
Julianus, Digest, Book VII. If my house is servient to those of Lucius Titius and Publius Mævius, the provision being that I shall not be permitted to build my house any higher, and I ask permission of Titius to raise it, and I keep it raised for the time established by law; I will obtain freedom from the servitude by usucaption as against Publius Mævius; for Titius and Mævius were not entitled to one servitude together, but to two. The proof of this is that if either one of them should release me from the servitude, I would be free from that one alone, and should still be subject to the servitude for the benefit of the other. 1Ad Dig. 8,2,32,1Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. I, § 216, Note 11.Freedom from a servitude is obtained by usucaption, where the house is held in possession; and therefore if a party who has raised his house relinquishes possession of the same before the time provided by law has expired, the usucaption is interrupted; and any other person who subsequently acquires possession of the same house, will obtain freedom by usucaption by the lapse of the entire term established by law. For the nature of servitudes is such that they cannot be possessed, but the party who possesses the house is understood to have possession of the servitude.
Julianus, Digest, Book VII. If the Sempronian Estate is subject to a servitude in favor of land owned by you and me in common, and we purchase the same to be held in common, the servitude is extinguished; because the right of each owner has become the same in the two estates, respectively. But where the land purchased was subject to my own estate and to yours as well, the servitude will remain; because a servitude over an estate held in common can be attached to land owned in severalty.
Julianus, Digest, Book XVII. If I purchase from you permission to let rain-water drip from my house on to yours, and afterwards, with your knowledge, on account of the purchase, I allow it to do so; I ask, whether I can on this ground be protected by any action or exception? I answered that I can avail myself of either resource.
Julianus, Digest, Book VII. If the vendor makes a false statement as to the quality of the land, but not as to its amount, he will still be liable to the purchaser. For suppose that he alleged that there were fifty jugera of vineyard and fifty of meadow, and it was ascertained that there were less than this in the vineyard, and more in the meadow, there would, nevertheless, be one hundred jugera in all.
Julianus, Digest, Book VII. A party who is aware that a tract of land is jointly owned by himself and another, and who gathers the crops from the same without the knowledge or consent of his fellow-owner, does not acquire a right to any greater portion of them than his interest in the land entitles him to. Nor does it make any difference whether he or his fellow-owner, or both of them, sow the seed, for the ownership of every kind of crop is acquired, not through the right to the seed, but through that to the soil; and just as where a party who knowingly has possession of a tract of land belonging to another, cannot acquire the ownership of any part of the crop, no matter in what way the land has been sown; so also, he who has possession of land belonging to himself and another, will acquire no right to the crop on that portion of the land which belongs to his fellow-owner. 1Ad Dig. 22,1,25,1Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. I, § 186, Note 12.I sowed wheat on land belonging to another which Titius had bought in good faith; will Titius, the bona fide purchaser, have a right to the crop after it has been harvested? I answered that the profits obtained from a tract of land should be understood to closely resemble those which slaves acquire by their labor; for in gathering crops more consideration is paid to what produces them than to the seed from which they are derived, and therefore no one can ever doubt that if I should sow your wheat on my own ground, the crop and whatever may be collected from the harvest will belong to me. Again, a possessor in good faith has the same right to harvest the crop which is granted to the actual owner of the land. Besides, since crops of every kind, no matter by whom they have been sowed, belong to the usufructuary, much more does this apply to bona fide possessors who have a still better right to the crops, since they do not belong to the usufructuary until they have been gathered by him, but they belong to the bona fide possessor, without reference to how they may have been separated from the soil; just as in the case of a party who holds land on the condition of paying a tax, the crops become his as soon as they are separated from the soil. 2A bona fide purchaser sowed land of which he was in possession, and, before he harvested the crop, ascertained that the land belonged to someone else. The question arises, will he be entitled to the crop after it is harvested? I answered that a bona fide purchaser should be understood to have a right to harvest the crop, provided the land has not been evicted, for whatever a slave belonging to another, and whom I purchased in good faith, acquires for me by means of my property or by his own labor, is mine, so long as he is not evicted.
Julianus, Digest, Book VII. Where a slave receives his freedom by a will, under the condition of rendering an account, he must pay the balance remaining in his hands to the heirs, in proportion to their respective shares of the estate; even if the names of some of them are mentioned in the condition.