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PHILIPPINE
LAW REVIEW
VOL. II. November 1912. No. 1.
THE MODERN CIVIL LAW.
LAS SIETE PARTIDAS.
(Continued.]
b. THE LAWIV OF PROPERTY.
T HE last five titles (XXVII[-XXXL[) of the Third, and
most of the Sixth, Parlida treat of subjects which the
Institutes of Justinian comprehend in Book If and the
first part of Book III, to wit property and its transinis-
sion. The separation above indicated is not an improv-
ement and the Spanish jurists would have done better
had they followed the arrangement, as closely as they
did the contents, of their Roman models. Beginning with
the definition of ownership or dominion (sellorio) Title
XXVIII of the Third Parlida proceeds, in the conventional
Roman way, to a classification of property and the modes
of its' acquisitioa. Title XXIX treats of prescriptioa and
reproduces the Justinian periods of three years for im-
mnovables and ten years for movables, or twenty if the
adverse claimant is absent. Title XXX contains a brief
treatment of possession and the modes of acquiring and
losing it while Title XXXI is devoted to servitudes (ser-
ridumbres)l and here again we find a condensed para-
phrase of the Institutes. Of the servittes risticas, iter
reappears as senda, actus as carrera, via under the same
1. Wrongly translated services in Morectu & Carleton's edition.
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