In Jure Cessio - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: in jure cessioIn jure cessio
In jure cessio means a fictitious trial held to transfer ownership of property. At trial, the transferee appeared before a praetor and asserted ownership of the property. The actual owner also appeared, but did not contest the assertion, and so allowed the transfer of the property to the plaintiff, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 789....
Addictio
Addictio, the act of a magistrate, the pr'tor in Civil Law. The addictio had different purposes: to enfranchise a slave (manumissio vindicta), to adopt a child, or to transfer the ownership of goods. The transfer of ownership by addictio was like the mancipatio an acquisitio civilis. Such an addictio might be pronounced, either when ownership is transferred by way of in jure cessio, or on the ground of a sale by public auction or upon succession, or for the purposes of an assignatio (magistral grant of ager publicus), or it might take the form of an 'adjudicatio,' the judge deciding a partition suit....
Cessio in jure
Cessio in jure, a fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire a thing claimed (vindicabat) the thing, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the claim, and the magistrate pronounced it to be property (addicebat) of the claimant, Sand Just....
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