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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.1.7.pr-37.1.7.2

Eligibility and Time Limits for Requesting Bonorum Possessio

Passage 5716 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the acceptance of the possession of goods by slaves and women, the restrictions on minors, and the commencement of the time period for petitioning through a tutor or father.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §37.1.7.prSeruus bonorum possessionem recte admittere potest, si praetor de condicione eius certus sit: nam et absenti et non petenti dari bonorum possessio potest, si hoc ipsum praetor non ignoret.
[ULPIANUS, book 1 on Sabinus.] A slave can rightly accept the possession of goods, if the praetor is certain of his status: for the possession of goods can be granted both to an absent person and to one who does not petition for it, if the praetor is not ignorant of this very fact.
ergo et femina poterit alii bonorum possessionem petere.
Therefore, a woman also will be able to petition for the possession of goods for another.
§37.1.7.1Impubes nec bonorum possessionem admittere nec iudicium sine tutoris auctoritate accipere potest.
A person under puberty can neither accept the possession of goods nor undertake a trial without the authority of their tutor.
§37.1.7.2Quia tutor pupillo et pater infanti filio bonorum possessionem petere possunt, dies, quibus tutor aut pater scit, cedere placet.
Since a tutor can petition for the possession of goods for a ward, and a father for an infant son, it is accepted that the days on which the tutor or father has knowledge run.

Notes

  1. §37.1.7.prcondicione — Here, condicio means "status" or "legal condition," referring to the state of being a slave or the capacity to act on behalf of the master.
  2. §37.1.7.prhoc ipsum — Refers to the facts mentioned immediately before: being absent and not petitioning (absenti et non petenti).
  3. §37.1.7.2dies... cedere — A legal idiom meaning "the days begin to run" or "time begins to elapse," indicating the commencement of the statutory period (dies utiles) allowed for petitioning for the possession of goods.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.1.7.pr-37.1.7.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.1.7.pr-37.1.7.2

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