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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.8.6.pr

Prohibition of Usucaption of Forcefully Taken Goods

Passage 7987 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Venuleius explains the statutory prohibition of usucaption for property possessed or taken by force before it returns to the power of its owner or heir.

[UENULEIUS libro septimo decimo stipulationum. ] §47.8.6.prQuod ui possessum raptumue sit, antequam in potestatem domini heredisue eius perueniat, usucapi lex uetat.
[VENULEIUS, on Stipulations, book seventeen.] The law forbids that what has been possessed by force or taken by force be acquired by usucaption, before it comes into the power of its owner or his heir.

Notes

  1. §47.8.6.prQuod ui possessum raptumue sit — A clause introduced by the relative pronoun quod containing its own antecedent, which as a whole functions as the subject accusative of the passive infinitive usucapi.
  2. §47.8.6.prusucapi — The present passive infinitive of the verb usucapere (to acquire by usucaption), forming an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction governed by uetat (forbids).

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