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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.3.20.pr

Succession of Possession Without Intervening Third Party

Passage 6772 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the possession of the testator passes to the heir only if there has been no intervening possession by a third party in the meantime.

[IDEM libro quarto epistularum. ] §41.3.20.prPossessio testatoris ita heredi procedit, si medio tempore a nullo possessa est.
[THE SAME, Letters, book 4] The possession of the testator passes to the heir only if it has been possessed by no one in the meantime.

Notes

  1. 41.3.20.prita... si — The correlative construction of the adverb 'ita' and the conjunction 'si', expressing a restrictive condition ('only if'). It denotes a stronger limitation than a simple conditional clause.
  2. 41.3.20.prprocedit — Third-person singular present indicative of the intransitive verb 'procedere' (to go forward, proceed). Here it is used in the sense of 'to accrue to' or 'to be credited to' (the heir) for the purpose of acquisition by prescription.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.3.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.3.20.pr

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