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'Possession', primarily the actual control over a thing, but in contrast to dominium ('ownership') as full legal power. As a technical term in Roman law, possessio has partly real, partly legal features (possessio non tantum corporis, sed et iuris est, Papin. Dig. 41,2,49,1). For example, Ofilius and Nerva filius (Cocceius [6]) consider the acquisition of possessio to be a de facto matter (rem facti non iuris, Dig. 41,2,1,3). Therefore, a pupillus (minor, minores ) without the agreement of a guardian (tutoris auctoritas) and even a furiosus (mentally ill person) s…