Note 219 — Chapter XIII · POSSESSION.
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It must be remembered that we are speaking of possession in fact. Whether possession in law and the various advantages conferred by it are to be attributed to all possessors in fact or only to some of them is a different question with which we are not here concerned. Roman Law, save in exceptional cases, allowed possessio corporis only to those who possessed as owners and on their own behalf. In English law, on the other hand, there is no such limitation of legal possession; though even here the possession of a servant sometimes fails to obtain legal recognition.