Who speaks?
Who transfers?
The buyer claims. The bronze changes hands.
Or the owner is silent, and the magistrate acts.
Rehearse the sequence in Gaius 1.119–121 and 2.24–25. Change the people present; try an act too soon; inspect the words that make it matter.
Rehearse a formal conveyance
Arrange the scene.
Lucius owns the thing. Aulus acquires it. The remaining legal assumptions are stated below.
Changing the arrangement starts a fresh sequence. Your explanation stays.
Possession is not assigned by this diagram. A ritual grasp and delivery of possession are distinct questions.
Choose who does what.
The buttons are not an ordered checklist. Try the source's sequence.
Start with the people present. Does four plus the balance holder meet the text?
Your sequence of attempts 0 / 40
An action has a subject. A condition has a consequence.
Read the act beside its page.
Five witnesses, and another person
Close English translation
Latin transcribed from Poste–Whittuck (1904), consonantal u printed as v. […] marks our omissions; ⟨…⟩ marks the edition's supplied text. English translations are new for this lesson.
Keep the sequence, including the mistakes.
The record carries the arrangement, every attempt, the reasons, your explanation and four complete source pages.
Up to 1,000 characters. Retained as written, not graded.
Files stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. A copied link includes your explanation.
What this rehearsal can establish.
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