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Specificatio (Roman law)

Contract and Property Doctrine

Specificatio is a legal concept adopted from Roman law. It is an original mode of acquisition, since it involves deriving rights over objects that are not subject to pre-existing rights of ownership, and it can be compared with the other original modes of acquisition and contrasted with derivative modes of acquisition, such as accession. Specificatio occurs where new property rights are established as a result of some action upon objects owned by someone else that results in a change of species. Essentially this meant the creation of a new thing out of the materials of another. The source gives as instances a person who has made wine, oil or corn out of the grapes, olives or ears of corn belonging to another.

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Doctrine Category
Property Law 2
Origin Period
Origin Period (category)
Roman Law 1
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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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Source Specificatio (Roman law) (Wikipedia)
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1. Specificatio (Roman law) (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Specificatio is a legal concept adopted from Roman law.
  • In Group: Ius in Re, lead paragraph defines the Roman law ownership doctrine
  • In Legal System: Roman law, Wikipedia lead paragraph
    Specificatio is a legal concept adopted from Roman law. It is an original mode of acquisition, since
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2. Wikipedia: Specificatio (Roman law)
a legal concept adopted from Roman law... an original mode of acquisition... new property rights established as a result of some action upon objectsView the Source
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