| RESCRIPT
OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS AND CARACALLA ON USUCAPION ( AD 199-200 ) |
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( Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 221, n. 269 ). |
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the Twelve Tables a Roman could usucapt real property in two years.
Since this rule applied only to Romans, for provincials was evolved
the prescription of long-time or of long possession, whereby ten or
twenty years were required, as is explained in this document, which
extends the regulation to Egypt. The rescript on papyrus was reported in 1895. |
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| LATIN TEXT ( RICCOBONO ) | ENGLISH TRANSLATION | |
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. . . . imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Seuerus
Pertinax Aug. Arabicus Adiabenicus . . . . Parthicus
Maximus et imp. Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Iulianae Sostheniani
filiae per Sosthenem maritum. |
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. . Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus Arabicus
Adiabenicus ... Parthicus Maximus and Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus Augustus to Juliana, daughter of Sosthenianus, through Sosthenes,
her husband. |
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| Longae
possessionis praescriptio iis, qui iustam causam habuerunt et sine ulla
controuersia in possessione fuerunt, aduersus eos qui in alia ciuitate
morantur annorum uiginti spatio confirmatur, aduersus eos autem qui
in eadem annorum decem. |
The
prescription of long possession, if a person has entered upon possession
with a legal title and has enjoyed uninterrupted possession without
any dispute, is confirmed against claimants living in a different city
after a period of twenty years, but in the same city after a period
of ten years. |
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| Proposita
Alexandreae, anno VIII, Tybi III. |
Posted
in Alexandria. Year 8, Tybi 3. |
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