Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.17.2.pr-48.17.2.1

Time Limits on Seizing Absentees' Goods and Prescription

Passage 8355 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the one-year period for the fiscus to occupy the property of a person registered as to be searched for, and the twenty-year prescription that bars the fiscus if it fails to do so.

[MACER libro secundo publicorum. ] §48.17.2.prAnni spatium ad occupanda bona eius, qui requirendus adnotatus est, pertinet.

[Macer, Publica, Book 2.] The period of a year relates to the occupation of the property of him who has been registered as to be searched for.

§48.17.2.1Sed si per uiginti annos fiscus bona non occupauerit, postea praescriptione uel ab ipso reo uel ab heredibus eius submouebitur:

But if the fiscus has not occupied the property for twenty years, it will afterwards be barred by prescription, either by the defendant himself or by his heirs.

Notes

48.17.2.prad occupanda bona — This is a gerundive construction with the preposition `ad` expressing purpose ("for the purpose of occupying the property" or "to occupy the property").
48.17.2.1submouebitur — The subject of the verb `submouebitur` (future passive, third-person singular) is `fiscus` from the preceding clause. It is modified by both the ablative of instrument `praescriptione` (by prescription) and the ablative of agent `ab ipso reo uel ab heredibus eius` (by the defendant himself or by his heirs).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.17.2.pr-48.17.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.17.2.pr-48.17.2.1

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