Saisine

There have been cases where a court has ruled that "if you have a right to the possession of the land, you should sue with evidence," but this is an indication that the principle was that it was prohibited to realize one's rights (recovery of the land) by one's own efforts (self-help), and is not the same as the above-mentioned current Civil Code, where possession suits are treated separately from the main right. On the other hand, there is also a theory that considers the possession of the land to be similar to the medieval German Gewere (called saisine in France), which indicates a form of ownership in which rights and possession are not separated. As can be seen from the above expression "the origin of the possession of the possession," the right and possession are closely related in the case of the possession of the possession, so there are some commonalities with the Gewere system. However, the word Gewere itself is a technical term indicating a certain legal status in the state system, and in court, the issue is who has that status. In contrast, the word "chigyo" refers to the de facto act or state of taking possession of the duties and rights and interests that come with an "office." It is rather the "office" that corresponds to Gewere, the object (status) that should be taken possession of, and one could even say that "chigyo" corresponds to the "haben" in "having Gewere."

*Some of the terminology that mentions "saisine" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…自分に知行すべき由緒があるのなら，証拠を添えて訴えよ〉という判決が下された例があるが，これは自力で権利の実現(知行の取戻し)を行う(自力救済)ことが原則上禁止されていたことのあらわれであって，上述した現行民法の占有訴訟が本権と切りはなして扱われたのと同じではない。　他方，知行は，権利と占有の未分離な所有形態を示す中世ドイツのゲウェーレGewere(フランスではセジヌsaisine)に似たものとする学説もある。たしかに上述の〈知行すべき由緒〉といういい方からもわかるように，知行の場合にも権利と占有は密着しているから，Gewereの体系と共通のものがみられるが，Gewereという言葉そのものは，国制上の一定の法的地位を表示するテクニカルタームであって，裁判においても，だれがその地位をもっているか，が問題にされるのに対し，知行は，〈職〉に伴う職務と権益を自分のものにする，という事実上の行為ないし状態を指す言葉で，自分のものにすべき対象(地位)たるGewereに対応するのはむしろ〈職〉であり，〈知行〉は〈Gewereをもつ〉の〈もつhaben〉に相当するといってもよい。…

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