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Res Perit Domino Suo

Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The destruction of the thing is the loss of its owner. 8 Bouv. Inst, notes 1456, 1466; Story, Bailm. 426; 2 Kent, Comm. 591. RES PRIVITAE (Lat.)

In the civil law. Things the property of one or more individuals. Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 167. RES PROPRIA EST QUAE COMMUNIS non est. A thing is private which is not common. 8 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 261, 270. RES PUBLICAE (Lat.)

In the civil law. Things the property of the state. Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 157; Ersk. Inst. 2. 1. 5. 6. RES QUAE INTRA PRAESIDIA PERductae nondum sunt, quanquam ab hostibus occupatae, Ideo postliminii non egent, quia dominum nondum mutarunt ex gentium jure. Things which have not yet been introduced within the enemy's lines, although held by the enemy, do not need the fiction of postliminy on this account, because their ownership by the law of nations has not yet changed. Grotius de Jure Belli, lib. 3, c 9, § 16; Id. lib. 8, c. 6, i 8. RES RELIGIOSAE (Lat.)

In civil law. Things pertaining t6 religion; places where the dead were buried. Thevenot Dessaules, Diet, du Dig. "Chose." RES SACRA NON RECIPIT AESTIMAtionem. A eacred thing does not admit of valuation. Dig. 1. 8. 9. 5. RES SACRAE (Lat.)

In civil law. Those things ■rchich had been publicly consecrated. RES SANCTAE (Lat.)

In civil law. Those things which were especially protected against injury of man.