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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.1.22.pr

No Acquisition through Slaves Held by Defective Possession

Passage 6652 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage explains that a person who possesses a slave through defective possession—namely by force, clandestinely, or precariously—cannot acquire any rights through that slave's acts of stipulating or receiving property.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo ad Sabinum. ] §41.1.22.prNemo seruum ui possidens aut clam aut precario per hunc stipulantem uel rem accipientem potest adquirere.
[ULPIAN, On Sabinus, book 40] No one who possesses a slave by force, or clandestinely, or precariously can acquire through this slave when he stipulates or receives a thing.

Notes

  1. §41.1.22.prui possidens aut clam aut precario — The words ui, clam, and precario are ablatives of manner or means indicating the three defects of possession. They modify the nominative present participle possidens, which agrees with the subject nemo.
  2. §41.1.22.prper hunc stipulantem uel rem accipientem — The preposition per governs the accusative demonstrative pronoun hunc (referring back to the slave, seruum), which is modified by the co-ordinate accusative present participles stipulantem and accipientem.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.1.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.1.22.pr

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