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Note the common usage is status quo from the Latin status quo ante, the "state in which before" or "the state of affairs that existed previously." [10] stratum: a covering, from neuter past participle of sternere, to spread 1) In property law, condominiums has said to occupy stratum many stories about the ground. [7]
Usucaption (Latin: usucapio), also known as acquisitive prescription, [1] [2] is a concept found in civil law systems [3] and has its origin in the Roman law of property. Usucaption is a method by which ownership of property (i.e. title to the property) can be gained by possession of it beyond the lapse of a certain period of time (acquiescence).
In 72/71 BC, setting out some standard defences to a charge of obtaining property by 'force' or 'violence' (uis) in his speech on behalf of his client Marcus Tullius, he referred to the requirement that the dispossessed party's claim to possession not be based upon entry by force, stealth or licence ('cum ille possideret, quod possideret nec ui ...
Nemo dat quod non habet, literally meaning "no one can give what they do not have", is a legal rule, sometimes called the nemo dat rule, that states that the purchase of a possession from someone who has no ownership right to it also denies the purchaser any ownership title.
In the context of property law it can be restated as: "In a property dispute (whether real or personal), in the absence of clear and compelling testimony or documentation to the contrary, the person in actual, custodial possession of the property is presumed to be the rightful owner. The rightful owner shall have their possession returned to ...
A. Ab initio; Abjuration; Accessio (Roman law) Actio Pauliana; Actio personalis moritur cum persona; Actus reus; Ad colligenda bona; Ad idem; Ad litem; Ad quod damnum
Seisin comes from Middle English saysen, seysen, in the legal sense of ' to put in possession of, or to take possession of, hence, to grasp, to seize '.The Old French variations seisir, saisir, are from Low Latin sacΔ«re, generally referred to the same source as Gothic ππ°ππΎπ°π½ satjan, Old English settan, ' to put in place, set '.
Res nullius is a term of Roman law meaning "things belonging to no one"; [1] [2] that is, property not yet the object of rights of any specific subject. A person can assume ownership of res nullius simply by taking possession of it (). [3]