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Servitus
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('Subserviency') in Roman law meant the encumbrance of a piece of land in the sense that the owner was obliged to tolerate certain impacts enacted by the encumbrancer or was not allowed to impact another piece of land in certain ways (however: there was no obligation towards positive actions, in faciendo consistere nequit). Servitus on rural tracts of land (servitus praediorum rusticorum) included road easements (iter), paths for driving cattle (actus), roads for transporting goods (via), water ducts (aquae ductus). In the city, servitus (servitus praediorum urban…

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Schanbacher, Dietmar (Dresden), “Servitus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1110480>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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