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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.1.64.pr

No Acquisition of Ownership by Registering Property in Census

Passage 6694 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment establishes the principle that registering property belonging to another in the census does not make it one's own.

[QUINTUS MUCIUS SCAEUOLA libro singulari ὅρων. ] §41.1.64.prQuae quisque aliena in censum deducit, nihilo magis eius fiunt.
[QUINTUS MUCIUS SCAEUOLA, from the single book on Definitions.] Whatever things belonging to another each person registers in the census, they become his none the more.

Notes

  1. §41.1.64.prnihilo magis eius fiunt — eius is a genitive of possession referring back to the subject of the relative clause quisque ("become his"). fiunt is the third-person plural present of fio ("to become"). nihilo magis is an adverbial phrase meaning "none the more," indicating that formal registration in the census (censum) has no effect on substantive ownership under private law.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.1.64.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.1.64.pr

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