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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.1.1.pr

Rights and Obligations Conferred by Bonorum Possessio

Passage 5710 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the admission of the possession of goods (bonorum possessio) grants hereditary rights, obligations, and ownership of the items contained within those goods.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo nono ad edictum. ] §37.1.1.prBonorum possessio admissa commoda et incommoda hereditaria itemque dominium rerum, quae in his bonis sunt, tribuit: nam haec omnia bonis sunt coniuncta.
[ULPIANUS, book 39 on the Edict.] An admitted possession of goods grants the hereditary advantages and disadvantages, and likewise the ownership of things which are in these goods; for all these are connected with the goods.

Notes

  1. §37.1.1.pradmissa — The perfect participle admissa (feminine singular nominative of admittere) modifies the noun bonorum possessio, referring to the status where the possession of goods has been granted by the praetor or accepted by the petitioner.
  2. §37.1.1.prquae — The relative pronoun quae (feminine plural nominative) has the preceding rerum (genitive plural of the feminine noun res) as its antecedent. The relative clause means 'things which are in these goods'.
  3. §37.1.1.prbonis — A dative plural of the neuter plural noun bona (goods, property), functioning as the complement to the adjective coniuncta (connected with).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.1.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.1.1.pr

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