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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.5.1.pr

Bar to Usucaption as Heir over Property of a Living Person

Passage 6817 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that nothing can be acquired by usucaption "as heir" from the property of a living person, even if the possessor mistakenly believed that the property belonged to a deceased person.

[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §41.5.1.prPro herede ex uiui bonis nihil usucapi potest, etiamsi possessor mortui rem fuisse existimauerit.
[POMPONIUS, from his thirty-second book on Sabinus.] Nothing can be acquired by usucaption "as heir" from the property of a living person, even if the possessor believed that the thing had belonged to a deceased person.

Notes

  1. §41.5.1.prPro herede — Meaning "as heir," which refers to one of the just titles for usucaption (titulus usucapionis).
  2. §41.5.1.prmortui — The genitive singular of the substantivated adjective mortuus (deceased), functioning as a possessive genitive with the perfect infinitive fuisse of sum ("had belonged to a deceased person").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.5.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.5.1.pr

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