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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 ...
, ''res derelictae'' referred to property voluntarily abandoned by the owner. The dominant strand of legal thought under the Roman Empire held it to be a form of ''
res nullius
''Res nullius'' is a term of Roman law meaning "things belonging to no one"; that is, property not yet the object of rights of any specific subject. A person can assume ownership of ''res nullius'' simply by taking possession of it ''( occupatio ...
'', or "un-owned" property, but it was necessary to establish that it had been voluntarily abandoned.
The opposite was ''
res mancipi
''Res mancipi'' was one of the categories of property in Roman law. The other was ''res nec mancipi''.
Romans viewed ''res mancipi'' as that property of particular importance to them, at least in early Rome. Gaius (Institutes 2.14a - 2.22) explain ...
'', or "owned" property.
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Res communis
''Res communis'' is a concept or doctrine. The expression is a Latin language, Latin term derived from Roman law that preceded today's concepts of the commons and common heritage of mankind. It has relevance in international law and common law.
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Sicaricon
''Sicaricon'' (), (now obsolete), refers in Jewish law to a former act and counter-measure meant to deal effectively with religious persecution against Jews in which the Roman government had permitted its own citizens to seize the property of ...
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