Res derelictae
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InRoman law,res derelictaereferred to property voluntarily abandoned by the owner.[1]The dominant strand of legal thought under the Roman Empire held it to be a form ofres nullius,or "un-owned" property, but it was necessary to establish that it had been voluntarily abandoned.[2]The opposite wasres mancipi,or "owned" property.
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[edit]- ^Bouckaert, Boudewijn (1999)."Original Assignment of Private Property"(PDF).FindLaw.Law and Economics.1100.
- ^Benton, Lauren; Straumann, Benjamin (February 2010). "Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice".Law and History Review.28(1): 15–16.JSTOR40646121.
