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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.1.58.pr

Acquisition of Things Recovered from Sea and Abandonment

Passage 6688 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section stipulates that any thing recovered from the sea does not become the property of the retriever until the original owner has treated it as abandoned.

[IAUOLENUS libro undecimo ex Cassio. ] §41.1.58.prQuaecumque res ex mari extracta est, non ante eius incipit esse qui extraxit, quam dominus eam pro derelicto habere coepit.
[JAVOLENUS, from the eleventh book on Cassius.] Whatever thing is extracted from the sea does not begin to belong to the one who extracted it until the owner has begun to treat it as abandoned.

Notes

  1. §41.1.58.preius qui extraxit — The pronoun eius is a genitive of possession depending on incipit esse, with the relative clause qui extraxit modifying the omitted antecedent is, meaning "to belong to the one who extracted it."
  2. §41.1.58.prpro derelicto — Used in the idiomatic construction habere pro (to regard or treat as), where the preposition pro takes the ablative of the perfect passive participle derelictum (abandoned) functioning as a noun.

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