No one can have a servitude over his own property.

Explanation

A man cannot create an easement or servitude burdening his own land in his own favor — the full ownership already includes every lesser right of use.

Where this applies

• Can I grant myself an easement across my own property?
• I own two adjacent lots and want to create a formal right-of-way from one to the other while I still own both.

See also

• 5.1.1 The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual.
• 5.2.2 Whose is the soil, his it is even to the sky above and to the depths below.