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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.1.52.pr

Definition of Having a Thing among One's Goods

Passage 6682 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus defines what it means to have a thing among one's goods (in bonis habere), which is when one has a defense while possessing it, or an action to recover it upon loss.

[MODESTINUS libro septimo regularum. ] §41.1.52.prRem in bonis nostris habere intellegimur, quotiens possidentes exceptionem aut amittentes ad reciperandam eam actionem habemus.
[MODESTINUS, from the Rules, book 7] We are understood to have a thing among our goods whenever, possessing it, we have a defense, or, losing it, we have an action to recover it.

Notes

  1. §41.1.52.prin bonis nostris habere — A technical expression in Roman law denoting bonitary ownership (possession under praetorian protection), as distinguished from civil law ownership (dominium ex iure Quiritium).
  2. §41.1.52.prpossidentes ... amittentes — Present participles (nominative plural) agreeing with the implied subject 'we' of the verbs 'habemus' (and 'intellegimur'), functioning adverbially to express condition ('when possessing', 'when losing').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.1.52.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.1.52.pr

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