Actio negatoria (Roman law)

Family tree of the easements under Roman law (from the Corpus iuris civilis from 1548–1550) , Pierre Eskrich.

The actio negatoria ( action for freedom of property ) served in ancient Roman law to settle disputes relating to property rights and their restrictions due to encumbrances . It was primarily used as a right of defense and in this context served the property owner, who used it to oppose legal encumbrances such as easements or usufructuary rights (so-called iura praediorum ). If the owner prevailed, he could (again) exercise his right of ownership fully and undisturbed, since it had become unencumbered or a presumption of servitude had been warded off.

The actio negatoria also served to ward off immissions such as sewage, vapors and smoke from the neighboring property; the defendant, for his part, submitted that the immissions were permissible and therefore to be tolerated by the complaining owner. The lawsuit formed the counterpart to the vindication .

The scope of application of the actio negatoria has been significantly expanded in German private law and is now applicable to all property disruptions, for example to removal and injunctive relief according to § 1004 BGB .

Others

Freedom of property action (part of Austrian civil law )

literature

Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau study books) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , pp. 146, 171.
Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 71.
Wolfgang Kunkel , Heinrich Honsell , Theo Mayer-Maly , Walter Selb : Roman law . 4th edition. Berlin u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-16866-4 , pp. 538 f.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , pp. 146, 171.
^ Wolfgang Kunkel , Heinrich Honsell , Theo Mayer-Maly , Walter Selb : Römisches Recht . 4th edition. Berlin u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-16866-4 (current edition of the textbook written by many editors, but largely influenced by Kunkel), p. 538 f.
^ Heinrich Honsell: Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 71.

[Selb-1] A ^b Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , pp. 146, 171.

[2] Wolfgang Kunkel , Heinrich Honsell , Theo Mayer-Maly , Walter Selb : Römisches Recht . 4th edition. Berlin u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-16866-4 (current edition of the textbook written by many editors, but largely influenced by Kunkel), p. 538 f.

[3] Heinrich Honsell: Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 71.