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Objective Factor of Furtum: Contrectatio
(Türkiye Adalet Akademisi, 2017) Söğüt, İpek Sevda
The first element of furtum was contrectatio; the handling of an object against the will of the owner (invito domino) or the person who had a lawful interest in such object. Examples of contrectatio included the removal of a thing, embezzlement, receiving stolen goods, disposing of a pledged thing without being authorized to do so, accepting an object that the owner had handed over by mistake, and hiding an escaped slave. Furthermore, a pledgee or depositee who made use of the pledged or deposited object committed furtum as did the borrower who misused the thing lent and even the owner who fraudulently removed a thing from who had a real thing in it or from a hirer with a right of retention for expenses. It is difficult to apply the notion of handling (contrectatio) to land thought of as such, and it is never is in fact so applied in juristic texts, thought soil or stones, as opposed to praedium, could be “contrected” and stolen.