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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.2.41.pr

Entry Based on Friendship and Lack of Possessory Intent

Passage 6739 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a person who enters a friend's land by virtue of friendship is not considered to possess it, because they lack the intention to possess, even if they are physically present on the land.

[PAULUS libro primo institutionum. ] §41.2.41.prQui iure familiaritatis amici fundum ingreditur, non uidetur possidere, quia non eo animo ingressus est, ut possideat, licet corpore in fundo sit.
[PAULUS, in the first book of Institutes.] He who, by right of friendship, enters the land of a friend is not seen to possess it, because he did not enter with that intention, namely to possess, although he is physically on the land.

Notes

  1. §41.2.41.priure familiaritatis — iure is an ablative of cause or ground ("by virtue of" or "by right of"), and familiaritatis is the genitive depending on it.
  2. §41.2.41.preo animo ..., ut possideat — eo animo is an ablative of description or manner. The following clause ut possideat (subjunctive present, third-person singular) functions as an appositive or result clause explaining the specific content of that intention (animus).
  3. §41.2.41.prcorpore — An ablative of specification or manner. It refers to the physical element (corpus: physical control) required for possession (possessio) in Roman law, contrasted with the mental element, animus (eo animo).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.2.41.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.2.41.pr

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