Water law rules in Ancient Rome

Abstract

The paper wishes to show the main Roman legal rules connected with waters. These rules are discussed in the following order: (1) the legal position of the sea and the seashore; (2) the rules connected with public rivers (ownership rules, provisions for the sake of the undisturbed navigation, flood protection measures); (3) the rules of building, using, repairing of the public works connected with waters (bridges, aqueducts, sewers, baths); (4) predial servitudes connected with water; (5) the problems of damage caused by rainwater in the field of neighbouring rights (the rules of the actio aquae pluviae arcendae).

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