Duorum in solidum dominium vel possessio esse non potest is
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A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn from Latin, or anglicized Law Latin.
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term meaning "Sole ownership or possession cannot be in two persons" / "Two persons cannot own or possess a thing in the entirety."
It is a variation of a more popular Latin legal phrase, which is attested to in Coke's Institutes: Duo non possunt in solido unam rem possidere: "Ownership of a whole cannot be shared; right of ownership must be divided into portions."
§368 of the First Part of the "Commentary on Littleton" (Institutes of the Laws of England) by Sir Edward Coke
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See also
* Roman law
Roman law is the law, legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (), to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I.
Roman law also den ...
* civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and was comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code (1804) and Germany's (1900). Unlike common law systems, which r ...
* dominium
means "dominion; control; ownership".
Use in legal Latin
is used in some phrases and maxims in legal Latin:
*Dominium directum – Direct ownership, that is control of the property, but not necessarily with right to its utilization or alienati ...
* in solido
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