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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.3.5.pr

Natural Interruption of Possession by Violent Ejection

Passage 6757 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius discusses the natural interruption of possession through violent ejection or snatching, explaining that in such cases possession is interrupted against all persons, regardless of whether the intruder is the owner or what the possessor's title of possession is.

[GAIUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §41.3.5.prNaturaliter interrumpitur possessio, cum quis de possessione ui deicitur uel alicui res eripitur.
[GAIUS, On the Provincial Edict, book 21]\n\nPossession is naturally interrupted when anyone is violently ejected from possession or a thing is snatched away from someone.
quo casu non aduersus eum tantum, qui eripit, interrumpitur possessio, sed aduersus omnes.
In which case possession is interrupted not only against him who snatches it away, but against all.
nec eo casu quicquam interest, is qui usurpauerit dominus sit nec ne: ac ne illud quidem interest, pro suo quisque possideat an ex lucratiua causa.
And in that case it does not matter at all whether he who interrupted it is the owner or not; and it does not even matter whether each person possesses as his own or from a lucrative cause.

Notes

  1. §41.3.5.pralicui — The dative `alicui` used with the verb `eripitur` (passive of eripere, "to snatch away") is a dative of separation (dativus separationis), meaning "from someone."
  2. §41.3.5.prusurpauerit — The verb `usurpare` here refers not only to a general encroachment on possession but also functions as a technical term in Roman law for the "interruption of usucaption" (*usurpatio*), denoting the person who physically interrupted the possession.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.3.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.3.5.pr

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