[PAULUS libro trigensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §41.3.31.prNumquam in usucapionibus iuris error possessori prodest: et ideo Proculus ait, si per errorem initio uenditionis tutor pupillo auctor factus sit uel post longum tempus uenditionis peractum, usucapi non posse, quia iuris error est. §41.3.31.1In usucapionibus mobilium continuum tempus numeratur. §41.3.31.2Seruus licet in libertate moretur, nihil possidet nec per eum alius.
[PAULUS, On Sabinus, book 32]\n\nIn usucapions, an error of law never benefits the possessor; and therefore Proculus says that if by error at the beginning of a sale, or after a long time has passed since the completion of the sale, a tutor has given authority to his pupil, usucapion cannot take place, because it is an error of law.\n\nIn the usucapion of movables, continuous time is counted.\n\nAn enslaved person, even if they live in de facto freedom, possesses nothing, nor does anyone else through them.
atquin si nomine alicuius, dum in libertate moratur, nactus fuerit possessionem, adquiret ei, cuius nomine nactus fuerit. §41.3.31.3Si seruus meus uel filius peculiari uel etiam meo nomine quid tenet, ut ego per eum ignorans possideam uel etiam usucapiam: si is furere coeperit, donec in eadem causa res fuerit, intellegendum est et possessionem apud me remanere et usucapionem procedere, sicuti per dormientes quoque eos idem nobis contingeret.
But indeed, if they have acquired possession in the name of someone else while living in freedom, they will acquire it for the person in whose name they acquired it.\n\nIf my slave or son holds something in the name of his peculium, or even in my name, so that I possess through him without my knowing it, or even usucapt it: if he should begin to be insane, as long as the thing remains in the same condition, it must be understood both that the possession remains with me and that the usucapion proceeds, just as the same thing would happen to us through them also when they are sleeping.
idemque in colono et inquilino, per quos possidemus, dicendum est. §41.3.31.4Si ui aut clam aut precario possessionem nactus quis postea furere coeperit, et possessio et causa eadem durat de hoc, quod precario furiosus habet, quemadmodum interdicto quoque uti possidetis furiosi nomine recte experimur eius possessionis nomine, quam ante furorem per se uel post furorem per alium nactus est. §41.3.31.5Uacuum tempus, quod ante aditam hereditatem uel post aditam intercessit, ad usucapionem heredi procedit. §41.3.31.6Si defunctus emit, heres autem putat eum ex donationis causa possedisse, usu eum capturum Iulianus ait.
And the same must be said of a tenant farmer and a lodger, through whom we possess.\n\nIf someone, having acquired possession by force, stealth, or precarium, should afterwards begin to be insane, both the possession and the cause remain the same regarding that which the insane person holds by precarium, just as we also rightly sue in the name of the insane person with the interdict 'uti possidetis' in respect of that possession which he acquired by himself before his insanity, or through another after his insanity.\n\nThe vacant time which intervened before the acceptance of the inheritance or after its acceptance runs in favor of the heir for usucapion.\n\nIf the deceased purchased, but the heir thinks that he possessed by cause of gift, Julian says that he will acquire it by usucapion.