Crossword-Solution: JOINDER 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

But when a similar joinder of times was allowed between a legatee or devisee (legatarius) and his testator, the same explanation was offered.

Why, then, might not every gift or sale be regarded as a succession, so far as to insure the same advantages? [363] The joinder of times to make out a title was soon allowed between buyer and seller, and I have no doubt, from the language always used by the Roman lawyers, that it was arrived at in the way I have suggested.

Joinder of possessions, he says, that is, the right to add the time of one's predecessor's holding to one's own, clearly belongs to those who succeed to the place of others, whether by contract or by will: for heirs and those who are treated as holding the place of successors are allowed to add their testator's possession to their own.

Accordingly, it is laid down that there is no joinder of times when the possession is wrongful, /3/ and the only enumerated means of succeeding in rem are by will, sale, gift, or some other right.

And not to be too careful about the order of proof, I will first take up the joinder of times in prescription, as that has just been so fully discussed.