De possessoria hereditatis petitione
(Concerning Possessory Actions for the Recovery of Estates.)
1 Ulpianus libro quinto decimo ad edictum. Ordinarium fuit post civiles actiones heredibus propositas rationem habere praetorem etiam eorum quos ipse velut heredes facit, hoc est eorum quibus bonorum possessio data est.
1 Ulpiamis, On the Edict, Book XV. It is customary for the Prætor to consider those parties whom he constitutes actual heirs; that is to say, to whom the possession of the estate is granted, after civil actions have been proposed to the heirs:
2 Gaius libro sexto ad edictum provinciale. Per quam hereditatis petitionem tantundem consequitur bonorum possessor, quantum superioribus civilibus actionibus heres consequi potest.
2 Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book VI. And, by means of this action for the recovery of an estate, the possessor of the property obtains just as much as an heir can obtain and secure by means of the civil actions above mentioned.