The widths of roads outside the town were fixed and owners of adjacent land were held liable for their repair, and there was possibly some similar rule, not preserved on the inscription, for roads inside the walls; at Priene, it seems, these latter were in the care of the municipality.
There were provisions, too, for the repair of common walls which divided houses belonging to two owners, and also for the prevention of damp where two houses stood side by side on a slope and the wall of the lower house stood against the soil beneath the upper house.[40] [40] Kolbe, _Athen.Mitteil_.xxvii.47 and xxix.

75; Hitzig, _Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung, roman.

Abteilung_ xxvi.

433.
These rules are very like those which were coming into use before 330 B.C.

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