Pomponius

For what Pomponius says of its being necessary to obtain the Praetor’s leave, before a building can be raised upon the public shore, relates to structures of a permanent kind, when the massy piles of stone, as the Poet says, encroach, upon the sea, and the affrighted fish feel their waves contracted.

And this is the meaning of what Pomponius says, that in a bargain and sale, one man may naturally overreach another:

“Those says Pomponius, are public and lawful enemies, with whose state our own is engaged in war:

Quoniam igitur inaedificatio species est occupationis, in litore licet aedificare, si id fieri potest sine ceterorum incommodo, ut Pomponius loquitur, quod ex Scaevola explicabimus, nisi usus publicus, hoc est communis impediretur.

Et quod proprius est nostro argumento, Pomponius eum qui rem omnibus communem cum incommodo ceterorum usurpet, MANV PROHIBENDVM respondit.

Since therefore, to cite Pomponius, building is one kind of occupation, it is permissible to build upon the shore, if this can be done without inconvenience to other people;

and Justinian expressly enacted that in Correality as well as in Solidarity only actual satisfaction of a claim should operate a consumption of the right of action.

The Praetor’s Edict was the subject of studies by Labeo, Masurius Sabinus, Pedius and Pomponius.

Pomponius, of whom 578 fragments are preserved:

'To me indeed,' said he, 'this seems sufficiently confirmed, and I rejoice that that philosophy, whose furniture I formerly valued more than the possessions of the rest — so rich did it seem to me, that I could seek from it whatever I had desired in our studies — this philosophy, then, I rejoice has been found even more acute than the rest, which some said was lacking to it.

Therefore let this saying, which I read in Pomponius, be committed to memory: