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Q.1
Q.1: Answer any six questions in one or two sentences
12 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What is meant by Animus Possidendi?[2]
Answer
Animus possidendi means the intention to possess. It is the mental element of possession: the intention to hold a thing for oneself and to exclude others from it. The other element is the corpus possessionis, the physical control of the thing. Possession needs both.
Its features.
- It need not be an intention to own. Savigny required an intention to hold as owner. Ihering corrected him. A tenant, a pledgee and a borrower all possess, though none claims to own.
- It need not be lawful. A thief has animus possidendi, so he has possession. A second thief who takes the thing from him commits theft against him.
- It may be general. A person who possesses a locked box possesses whatever is inside it, even if he does not know what it is.
- It may be exercised through another person, such as a servant or an agent.
Why it matters. Corpus without animus is only custody. A servant who holds his master's tools has corpus but no animus, so the master possesses them through him. Animus without corpus is nothing in law: wanting a neighbour's car gives no possession of it.
Example. Ravi locks his car in his garage and goes abroad for a month. He still possesses it. He keeps the power to control it, and he intends to keep others away from it.
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