[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §44.3.16.prAccessio sine nostro tempore nobis prodesse non potest.
[PAULUS, from the third book on Sabinus] An addition cannot benefit us without our own time.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.3.16.pr
Inapplicability of Accession without One's Own Possession
Summary
Paulus states the principle that the addition of a predecessor's possession cannot benefit a person who has no possession of their own.
Notes
- §44.3.16.prsine nostro tempore — Meaning "without our own time (of possession)." Since the addition of possession (accessio) is a mechanism to append a predecessor's possession period to one's own to complete usucapion, this phrase expresses the fundamental rule that one cannot claim the addition if their own possession has never commenced (i.e., their own time is zero).
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.3.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.3.16.pr
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