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acquired action adopted agnati autem belonging bona bonorum capitis causa civil law cognati condictio constitution contract creditor curator debtor deceased deminutio dominus ejus emancipated emperor enim eorum erit etiam factum father fide fideicommis fideicommissa fideicommissum fidejussor fuerit furti Gaius give given hæc heir heredem heredes hereditatem ideo inheritance instituted inter interdict intestato Introd jure juris Justinian legacy legatee legatum lege lex Aquilia lex Julia liberty licet magistrate manumission master modo neque nihil obligation owner Papinian paragr parties paterfamilias peculium person plaintiff possession possessor possunt potest prætor prætorian pupil quæ quam quia quibus quidem quis quod quoque Roman law senatus-consultum servitude servus sibi sive slave stipulatio stipulation sui juris sunt suus heres tamen termed testament testator thing tion Titius tutor Twelve Tables Ulpian usufruct veluti vero
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Page 582 - Quorum, bonorum ex edicto meo illi possessio data est, quod de his bonis pro herede aut pro possessore possides, possideresve si nihil usucaptum esset, quodquidem dolomalo fecisti ut desineres possidere, id illi restituas.
Page 270 - ... the silence of a mother or a maternal grandfather, or of any other ascendant on the mother's side, has the same effect as a father actually disinheriting them.
Page 221 - In the case of moveables everything sold or delivered over by a person who knew himself not to be the owner was considered stolen, and therefore could not be acquired by use; and it "could not often happen that a person who was not the real owner could sell or deliver a moveable, thinking himself to be the owner. 4. Sed tamen id aliquando aliter se habet. Nam si heres, rem defuncto commodatam aut locatam vel apud eum depositam existimans hereditariam esse, bona fide accipienti vendiderit aut donaverit...
Page 310 - ... naturam indulgentem : necessarium esse duximus omnia legata fideicommissis exaequare, ut nulla sit inter ea differentia, sed quod deest legatis, hoc repleatur ex natura fideicommissorum et, si quid amplius est in legatis, per hoc crescat fideicommissi natura...
Page 173 - ... 13. It has been asked, whether, if you have wounded a wild beast, so that it could be easily taken, it immediately becomes your property. Some have thought that it does become yours directly you wound it, and that it continues to be yours while you continue to pursue it, but that if you cease to pursue it, it then ceases to be yours, and again becomes the property of the first person who captures it. Others have thought that it does not become your property until you have captured it. We confirm...
Page 80 - Ius autem civile vel gentium ita dividitur: omnes populi, qui legibus et moribus reguntur, partim suo proprio. partim communi omnium hominum iure utuntur...
Page 431 - ... erit stipulatio ob id, quod publica res in privatum deduci et ex libero servus fieri potest et commercium adipisci stipulator potest et res stipulatoris esse desinere potest: sed protinus inutilis est. item contra licet initio utiliter res in stipulatum deducta sit, si postea in earum qua causa, de quibus supra dictum est, sine facto promissoris devenerit : extinguitur stipulatio. ac ne statim ab initio talis stipulatio valebit ' Lucium Titium cum servus erit dare spondes?
Page 232 - ... ut tales donationes non augeantur tantum, sed et constante matrimonio initium accipiant et non ante nuptias...
Page 66 - ... si in ea re nihil dolo malo Auli Agerii factum sit neque fiat.
Page 74 - When therefore, by the assistance of the same eminent person Tribonian and that of other illustrious and learned men, we had compiled the fifty books, called Digests or Pandects, in which is collected the whole ancient law, we directed that these Institutes should be divided into four books, which might serve as the first elements of the whole science of law.