TABLE VII. REAL PROPERTY

1. [Ownership] within [a strip of] five feet [along a boundary] shall

not be acquired by long usage (_usucapio_).[31]

2. The way round [each outer wall of a building] shall be two and

one-half feet.

3. If they (the parties) disagree, boundaries shall be marked by three

arbitrators (_arbiter_).[32]

4. [Regulations relating to] inclosures, inherited plots,

cottages.[33]

5. The width of a road [extends to] eight feet on a straight

[stretch], [but it extends to] sixteen [feet] on a bend.

6. [Neighboring] persons shall mend the roadway. If they keep it not

laid with stones, one shall drive [one's] beast vehicles [across the

land] where one shall wish.

7. If rain-water do damage [through artificial diversion from its

natural channels, the offending owner] shall be restrained by an

arbitrator (_arbiter_).

8. If a water-course directed through a public place shall do damage

to a private person, to the [same] private person shall be [the right

to bring] an action (_actio_), that damage shall be repaired for the

owner.

9. Branches of a tree may be lopped all around to a height of fifteen

feet.[34] If a tree on a neighbor's farm [be bent crooked] by the wind

[and] lean over one's farm, [one can take] legal action (_agere_) for

removal of that [tree or at least of the offending part of it].

10. [The owner of a tree] may gather its fruit which falls upon

another's farm.

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