A casebook on Roman water law / Cynthia Jordan Bannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bannon, Cynthia Jordan, author.

Contributor:

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water (Roman law).

Riparian rights (Roman law).

Water rights--Rome--History.

Water rights.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Romans are famous for constructing aqueducts, canals, and dams. But their law is also a lasting, if less visible, monument to their attempts to control water. [This book] presents an analytical collection of Roman sources for water rights. The Romans recognized water as a natural resource, a public good, and an economic commodity, and they grappled with these issues as they developed law to regulate water. Early in their history the Romans crafted laws and institutions to regulate water in both public and private contexts. In later eras they revised and adapted their law to fit changing economic, cultural, and physical environments of an empire that spanned the Mediterranean. Each case documents the role of law in this history, and the study questions engage with key issues in legal and environmental history, ancient and modern. This casebook aims to cross historical and disciplinary boundaries by making the primary evidence for Roman water rights accessible to students and researchers. Cases are presented in both original Latin and English translation. To prepare for study of the cases, each chapter opens with an overview of its topic while the introduction presents the evidence for water rights and contextualizes them within historical and conceptual frameworks"--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Action For Warding Off Rainwater

I. Scope of the Action for Warding Off Rainwater (actio aquae pluviae arcendae)

Case 1.1 Statutory Basis of the Action D. 40.7.21 pr

Case 1.2 What Is Rainwater? D. 39.3.1 pr

Case 1.3 Rural or Urban? D. 39.3.1.20

Case 1.4 Potential Harm from Work D. 39.3.1.1

II. Procedural Issues

A. Plaintiff and Defendant

Case 1.5 A Personal Action for Property D. 39.3.6.5; D. 39.3.7 pr

Case 1.6 Who Can Be Plaintiff? D. 39.3.1.13

Case 1.7 Who Can Be Defendant? D. 39.3.4.2

Case 1.8 An Agreeable Neighbor D. 39.3.19; D. 39.3.20

Case 1.9 The Persistent Neighbor D. 39.3.14.4; D. 39.315

Case 1.10 Buyers and Sellers D. 39.3.6.4

B. Consequences of Liability

Case 1.11 Removing the Work D. 39.3.1.2

Case 1.12 Who Pays? D. 39.3.6.7

III. Work and Causes of Action

A. Farm Work

Case 1.13 Exemptions D. 39.3.1.3

5

Case 1.14 Irrigation D. 39.3.3.2

Case 1.15 Washed Away? D. 39.3.3 pr

Case 1.16 Diverting a Torrent Z). 39.3.2.9

Case 1.17 Dam Right! D. 39.3.2.5

Case 1.18 Too Much or Too Little? D. 39.3.1.21

B. Natural Causes

Case 1.19 The Nature of the Site D. 39.3.1.10, 14

Case 1.20 Defect of the Site D. 39.3.14.1

Case 1.21 Natural Changes D. 39.3.2.6

Case 1.22 The Lay of the Land D. 39.3.1.22

23

Case 1.23 Stillicidium D. 39.3.2.10

ch. 2 Servitudes

I. Servitudes as a Kind of Property

Case 2.1 Rustic Praedial Servitudes D. 8.3.1 pr

1

Case 2.2 Praedial and Praedium D. 8.4.1.1

Case 2.3 Rights of Use D. 8.5.4 pr

Case 2.4 Servitudes in a Roman Colony Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.5 ch. 79

Case 2.5 Haustus D. 8.3.3.3

Case 2.6 Use It Like You Mean It D. 8.6.25

Case 2.7 Who Owns the Water? D. 39.3.21

Case 2.8 Classification of Property: Gaius, Institutiones 2.12

14a

II. Rules for Rights of Use

A. How to Establish a Servitude

Case 2.9 Conveyances: Gaius, Institutiones 2.18.19, 22, 28

29

Case 2.10 Servitudes in the Provinces: Gaius, Institutiones 2.31

Case 2.11 Not by usucapio D. 8.1.14 pr

Case 2.12 Beyond Memory D. 43.20.3.4

B. Where, When, and How

Case 2.13 From the Source D. 8.3.9

Case 2.14 Natural Cause or Social Custom? D. 8.4.2

Case 2.15 Utility D. 8.1.8 pr

Case 2.16 Self-Sufficiency and Adjacent Land D. 8.3.5.1; D. 8.36 pr

Case 2.17 Indivisible: No Shares D. 8.1.17

C. Modus and Multiple Servitudes

Case 2.18 Conditions and Modus D. 8.1.4 pr

Case 2.19 More Than One at a Time D. 43.20.4

Case 2.20 Environmental Constraints D. 8.3.2.2

Case 2.21 Allocation by Time, Volume, Season (Modus) D. 43.20.5 pr

Case 2.22 Watering Animals D. 43.20.1.18

D. Impact on the Servient Estate

Case 2.23 Consent to a Servitude D. 8.2.5

Case 2.24 The Route of aquaeductus D. 8.3.21

Case 2.25 A Tacit Understanding D. 8.1.9

Case 2.26 Not Doing Anything D. 8.1.15.1

III. Changes and Challenges

A. How Servitudes Are Lost

Case 2.27 Loss by Non-use: Paulus, Sententiae 1.17.1

2

Case 2.28 Who Can Exercise a Servitude? D. 8.6.20

Case 2.29 Intervals D. 8.6.7

Case 2.30 Non-use and Irrigation CJ 3.34.10

Case 2.31 A Start and Stop Spring D. 8.3.34.1; D. 8.3.35

B. Repairs and Management of Watercourses

Case 2.32 Regular Maintenance D. 8.4.11.1

Case 2.33 Repair or Improvement? D. 8.3.15

C. Actions for Servitudes

Case 2.34 An Action in rem: Gaius, Institutiones 4.3; D. 8.5.2 pr

Case 2.35 Which Court Hears Claims? D. 8.3.1.2

Case 2.36 Consequences of Litigation D. 8.5.18

D. Servitudes in the Sale of Land

Case 2.37 Tacit Transfer D. 41.1.20.1

Case 2.38 Delivery of a Servitude D. 8.1.20

Case 2.39 Sale and Loss by Non-use D. 8.6.18.1

Case 2.40 Labeo on Future Servitudes D. 8.3.10

ch. 3 Rivers And Seas

I. Sea and Shore

A. Public and Common to All

Case 3.1 Open Access and First Possessors D. 41.2.1.1

Case 3.2 Common Use of the Sea D. 43.8.3 pr

Case 3.3 Public or Common to All D. 47.10.13.7

Case 3.4 Common by Natural Law D. 1.8.2 pr

B. Along the Sea Shore

Case 3.5 Where the Waves Play D. 50.16.96 pr

Case 3.6 Who Owns the Shore D. 41.1.14 pr

Case 3.7 The Shore and the Interdict on Public Places D. 43.8.2.8

Case 3.8 Selling the Sea Shore D. 18.1.51

Case 3.9 Access for Fishing D. 1.8.4 pr

Case 3.10 Servitudes and the Sea D. 8.4.13 pr

II. Rivers

A. River Interdicts

Case 3.11 Prohibitory Interdicts D. 43.12.1 pr; D. 43.13.1 pr; D. 43.14.1 pr

Case 3.12 A Restitutionary Interdict D. 43.13.1.11

12

Case 3.13 Public and Perennial D. 43.12.1.1

3

Case 3.14 Public or Private? D. 43.12.1.4

B. Navigation

Case 3.15 The Interdict on Flow D. 43.13.1.1

Case 3.16 Last Summer's Flow D. 43.13.1.8

Case 3.17 Rivers and Roads D. 43.14.1.1

Case 3.18 Lakes and Lagoons D. 43.14.1.7

C. Irrigation

Case 3.19 Daily and Summer Water D. 43.20.1 pr

Case 3.20 Rivals D. 43.20.1.26

Case 3.21 Two Kinds of Water D. 43.20.1.3

Case 3.22 Assignment of Rights D. 43.20.1.44

Case 3.23 TheUsesof Diverted Water D. 43.20.1.11

Case 3.24 Proportional Allocation D. 8.3.17

Case 3.25 An Irrigation Community in North Africa Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 8.18587 = 4440 preamble and lines 1

16

Case 3.26 Water Quality D. 43.20.1.27

D. Maintenance

Case 3.27 Canals D. 43.21.4

Case 3.28 Springs D. 43.22.1.7

9

Case 3.29 An Irrigation Community in Spain lex rivi Hiberiensis 3a

c (col. 1.27

38, 42

46)

E. Drains and Sanitation

Case 3.30 Drains D. 43.23.1 pr and D. 43.23.1.15

Case 3.31 Health and Safety D. 43.23.1.2, 7

Case 3.32 Construction of a New Drain D. 43.23.2 Venuleius 1 Interdicts

Case 3.33 Drainage Ditches Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.5 ch. 104

III. River Banks

Case 3.34 What Is a River Bank? D. 43.12.1.5

Case 3.35 Alluvio D. 41.1.7.1

Case 3.36 Washed Away by Flooding. D. 41.1.7.2

Case 3.37 New Islands D. 41.1.7.4

Case 3.38 River Changes Course Twice D. 41.1.7.5

Case 3.39 Mooring and Freight D. 1.8.5 pr

Case 3.40 The Interdict on Shoring Up Banks D. 43.15.1 pr

4

Case 3.41 A Defense for the Interdict on Flow D. 43.13.1.6

7

Case 3.42 Fouling the Water CTh 7.1.13

ch. 4 Aqueducts

I. Public Supply and Private Delivery

A. Building an Aqueduct

Case 4.1 Public Works in the Republic: Frontinus, Aq. 5.1

3 and 6.1

Case 4.2 Acquiring Land for Rome's Aqueducts: Frontinus, Aq. 128.1

Case 4.3 Land for an Aqueduct in Spain Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 13.2951a lines 1

14

Case 4.4 Another Aqueduct in Spain (Urso) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12-5 ch. 99

Case 4.5 The Sources of Constantinople's Aqueduct CJ 11.43.9

B. A Public Amenity

Case 4.6 Public and Private in the Republic: Frontinus, Aq. 94

95

Case 4.7 The lex Rivalicia: Festus 458L

Case 4.8 The Imperial Water Commissioner: Frontinus, Aq. 100

101.1

Case 4.9 The Fountains of Rome: Frontinus, Aq. 104

II. Private Delivery

Case 4.10 Private Delivery at Urso Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.5 ch. 100

Case 4.11 Caesar's Benefit: Frontinus, Aq. 105

Case 4.12 Pipes to Private Property: Frontinus, Aq. 106.1

Case 4.13 Transferability: Frontinus, Aq. 108

Case 4.14 Aqua Caduca ("Lapsed Water"): Frontinus, Aq. 111

Case 4.15 Delivery from Hadrian's Aqueduct in Constantinople C/11.43.6 pr

Case 4.16 Allocation by Rank CTh 15.2.3

Case 4.17 Record-Keeping at Antioch C77z 15.2.2

Case 4.18 Fraudulent Grants CJ 11.43.5

III. Protecting the Water Supply

A. Rome and Italy

Case 4.19 Repairs and Maintenance: Frontinus, Aq. 96, 97.4

Case 4.20 Restrictions on Use: Frontinus, Aq. 97.1.3. 5

6

Case 4.21 Materials for Maintenance of Rome's Aqueducts: Frontinus, Aq. 125

Case 4.22 Clearway: Frontinus, Aq.

127

Case 4.23 Damage to the Conduits (lex Quinctia): Frontinus, Aq. 129.1

Case 4.24 Additional Protections (lex Quinctia): Frontinus, Aq. 129.7

11

Case 4.25 Maintenance at Amiternum Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.1853

B. Constantinople and Antioch

Case 4.26 Maintenance by Landowners CJ 11.43.1 pr

Case 4.27 Reckless Damage CJ 11.43-.2

Case 4.28 Free Water CJ 11.43.7

Case 4.29 Accountability for Repairs CJ 11.43.8

Case 4.30 The Sign of the aquarius CJ 11.43.10.4

IV. The Decree on the Venafrum Aqueduct

Case 4.31 Repairs and Special Treatment Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 10.4842.8

20

Case 4.32 City, Citizens, and Clearway Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 10.4842.21

36

Case 4.33 Private Delivery at Venafrum Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 10.4842.37

50

Case 4.34 Legal Procedure for Claims Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 10.4842.62

69

Case 4.35 Marking the Venafrum Clearway Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 10.4843.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780472132072

0472132075

9780472037865

0472037862

OCLC:

1127917948

Publisher Number:

99988936693