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"All Europe over, lawyers were being at once attracted and puzzled by the Roman doctrine of possession. ... Roman law compels us to hold that there are some occupiers who are not possessors. In an evil hour the English judges, who were controlling a new possessory action, which had been suggested by foreign models, adopted this theory at the expense of the termor. ... English law for six centuries and more will rue this youthful flirtation with Romanism."
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