Bonorum possessio
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bonorum possessio · Bonorum Possessio · possessio ab intestato · possessio secundum tabulas · praetorian possession · praetorian possession of goods · praetorian succession
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Praetorian grant of possession of an inheritance, subject to its own rules for demand and time limits.
and the rule requiring the demand of the possession of a heritage (agnitio bonorum possessionis), whether testate or intestate, to be made, if the claimant is an ascendant or descendant, within a year;
In the demand (agnitio) of bonorum possessio, however, by the claimant of a testate or intestate succession, the edict expressly made the scientia as well as the potestas of the claimant a condition of dies utilis, Dig.
for the acquisition (agnitio) of the praetorian succession we have seen that for ascendants and descendants a year, for others a hundred days was prescribed, Inst.
Ancient Law
The practical possession and enjoyment of an inheritance's property granted by the Praetor, short of full Civil Law ownership.
but then, to secure ourselves against being deluded by the analogy, we must always recollect that in one year the Bonorum Possessio was operated upon by a principle of Roman Law known as Usucapion, and the Possessor became Quiritarian owner of all the property comprised in the inheritance.