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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.2.32.pr-41.2.32.2

Possession Held through Wards and Acquisition by Infants

Passage 6730 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus discusses the retention of possession through a ward, the attribution of possession when a tenant sells and leases back a property, and the acquisition of possession by infants and wards depending on the tutor's authority.

[PAULUS libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §41.2.32.prQuamuis pupillus sine tutoris auctoritate non obligetur, possessionem tamen per eum retinemus.
[PAULUS, in the fifteenth book on Sabinus.] Although a ward is not bound without the authority of his tutor, we nevertheless retain possession through him.
§41.2.32.1Si conductor rem uendidit et eam ab emptore conduxit et utrique mercedes praestitit, prior locator possessionem per conductorem rectissime retinet.
If a tenant has sold the thing, and has hired it from the buyer, and has paid rent to both, the former lessor most rightly retains possession through the tenant.
§41.2.32.2Infans possidere recte potest, si tutore auctore coepit, nam iudicium infantis suppletur auctoritate tutoris: utilitatis enim causa hoc receptum est, nam alioquin nullus sensus est infantis accipiendi possessionem.
An infant can rightly possess, if he has begun with the authority of his tutor, for the judgment of the infant is supplied by the authority of the tutor; for this has been accepted for the sake of utility, since otherwise there is no understanding of an infant in acquiring possession.
pupillus tamen etiam sine tutoris auctoritate possessionem nancisci potest.
A ward, however, can acquire possession even without the authority of his tutor.
item infans peculiari nomine per seruum possidere potest.
Likewise, an infant can possess through a slave under the name of his peculium.

Notes

  1. §41.2.32.2tutore auctore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of two nouns, meaning "with the tutor acting as authorizer," i.e., "with the authority of the tutor."
  2. §41.2.32.2coepit — Third-person singular perfect indicative of coepisse. The infinitive possidere is ellipted from the context, meaning "if he has begun (to possess)."
  3. §41.2.32.2infantis accipiendi possessionem — infantis is a genitive modifying sensus. accipiendi possessionem is a genitive gerund phrase (or gerundive construction) modifying sensus (or infantis), meaning "the understanding of an infant in acquiring possession."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.2.32.pr-41.2.32.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.2.32.pr-41.2.32.2

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