[IDEM libro quinto decimo ad Plautium. ] §41.3.15.prSi is, qui pro emptore possidebat, ante usucapionem ab hostibus captus sit, uidendum est, an heredi eius procedat usucapio: nam interrumpitur usucapio, et si ipsi reuerso non prodest, quemadmodum heredi eius proderit? sed uerum est eum in sua uita desisse possidere, ideoque nec postliminium ei prodest, ut uideatur usucepisse.
[THE SAME, On Plautius, book 15] If a person who was possessing as a buyer is captured by enemies before usucapion, it must be considered whether usucapion proceeds for his heir. For usucapion is interrupted, and if it does not benefit him himself upon his return, how will it benefit his heir? But it is true that he ceased to possess during his lifetime, and therefore even the right of return does not benefit him so that he may be deemed to have acquired by usucapion.
quod si seruus eius, qui in hostium potestate est, emerit, in pendenti esse usucapionem Iulianus ait: nam si dominus reuersus fuerit, intellegi usucaptum: si ibi decesserit, dubitari, an per legem Corneliam ad successores eius pertineat.
But if the slave of one who is in the power of the enemy should purchase something, Julian says that the usucapion is in suspense: for if the master returns, it is understood to have been acquired by usucapion; if he dies there, it is doubted whether it belongs to his successors through the Lex Cornelia.
Marcellus posse plenius fictionem legis accipi.
Marcellus says that the fiction of the law can be accepted more fully.
quemadmodum enim postliminio reuersus plus iuris habere potest in his, quae serui egerunt, quam his, quae per se uel per seruum possidebat, cum ad hostes peruenit.
For how can one who has returned by the right of return have more right in those things which his slaves did, than in those things which he possessed by himself or through a slave when he fell into the hands of the enemy?
nam hereditatem in quibusdam uice personae fungi receptum est.
For it is accepted that in certain matters the inheritance acts in place of a person.
ideoque in successoribus locum non habere usucapionem.
And therefore there is no room for usucapion to be interrupted in the case of successors.
§41.3.15.1Si seruus, quem possidebam, fugerit, si pro libero se gerat, uidebitur a domino possideri: sed hoc tunc intellegendum est, cum, si adprehensus fuerit, non sit paratus pro sua libertate litigare: nam si paratus sit litigare, non uidebitur a domino possideri, cui se aduersarium praeparauit.
If a slave whom I possessed runs away, if he behaves as a free man, he will be deemed to be possessed by his master; but this must be understood to apply only when, if he should be apprehended, he is not prepared to litigate for his freedom; for if he is prepared to litigate, he will not be deemed to be possessed by his master, against whom he has prepared himself as an adversary.
§41.3.15.2Si quis bona fide possidens ante usucapionem amissa possessione cognouerit esse rem alienam et iterum nanciscatur possessionem, non capiet usu, quia initium secundae possessionis uitiosum est.
If anyone possessing in good faith, having lost possession before usucapion, discovers that the thing belongs to another and acquires possession again, he will not acquire it by usucapion, because the beginning of the second possession is flawed.
§41.3.15.3Si ex testamento uel ex stipulatu res debita nobis tradatur, eius temporis existimationem nostram intuendam, quo traditur, quia concessum est stipulari rem etiam quae promissoris non sit.
If a thing owed to us under a will or a stipulation is delivered, our estimation at the time of delivery must be considered, because it is permitted to stipulate even for a thing that does not belong to the promisor.