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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.3.8.pr-41.3.8.1

Usucapion via Slave Peculium and Its Limits

Passage 6760 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Based on Labeo, Neratius, and Julian, the text states that items acquired by a slave as peculium can be acquired by usucapion even if the master is unaware, while citing Pedius to establish that a person incapable of usucapion in their own name cannot acquire anything through a slave.

[PAULUS libro duodecimo ad edictum. ] §41.3.8.prLabeo Neratius responderunt ea, quae serui peculiariter nancti sunt, usucapi posse, quia haec etiam ignorantes domini usucapiunt: idem Iulianus scribit.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book 12] Labeo and Neratius gave the opinion that those things which slaves have acquired as part of their peculium can be acquired by usucapion, because masters acquire these by usucapion even when ignorant of them; Julian writes the same.
§41.3.8.1Sed eum, qui suo nomine nihil usucapere potest, ne per seruum quidem posse Pedius scribit.
But Pedius writes that he who can acquire nothing by usucapion in his own name cannot do so even through a slave.

Notes

  1. 41.3.8.prea ... usucapi posse — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction acting as the object of `responderunt`. The neuter plural accusative `ea` serves as the subject accusative of the present passive infinitive `usucapi`.
  2. 41.3.8.1ne per seruum quidem posse — Within the accusative with infinitive clause `eum ... posse`, the infinitive `usucapere` (to acquire by usucapion), which complements the auxiliary-like `posse`, is contextually omitted from the preceding relative clause `qui suo nomine nihil usucapere potest`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.3.8.pr-41.3.8.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.3.8.pr-41.3.8.1

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