[IDEM libro uicensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §12.1.11.prRogasti me, ut tibi pecuniam crederem: ego cum non haberem, lancem tibi dedi uel massam auri, ut eam uenderes et nummis utereris.
[THE SAME, On the Edict, book 26] You asked me to loan you money; since I did not have it, I gave you a dish or a mass of gold, so that you might sell it and use the money.
si uendideris, puto mutuam pecuniam factam.
If you sell it, I think that a loaned money is established.
quod si lancem uel massam sine tua culpa perdideris prius quam uenderes, utrum mihi an tibi perierit, quaestionis est.
But if, before you could sell it, you lost the dish or the mass without your fault, it is a question of whether it perished to my loss or to yours.
mihi uidetur Neruae distinctio uerissima existimantis multum interesse, uenalem habui hanc lancem uel massam nec ne, ut, si uenalem habui, mihi perierit, quemadmodum si alii dedissem uendendam: quod si non fui proposito hoc ut uenderem, sed haec causa fuit uendendi, ut tu utereris, tibi eam perisse, et maxime si sine usuris credidi.
The distinction of Nerva seems to me most true, who thinks that it makes a great difference whether I held this dish or mass for sale or not; so that, if I held it for sale, it perished to my loss, just as if I had given it to another to be sold. But if I was not of this purpose to sell it, but the cause of selling was that you might use it, it perished to yours, and especially if I loaned it without interest.
§12.1.11.1Si tibi dedero decem sic, ut nouem debeas, Proculus ait, et recte, non amplius te ipso iure debere quam nouem.
If I give you ten on the condition that you owe nine, Proculus says, and rightly, that you do not owe more than nine by operation of law.
sed si dedero, ut undecim debeas, putat Proculus amplius quam decem condici non posse.
But if I give it so that you owe eleven, Proculus thinks that no more than ten can be recovered.
§12.1.11.2Si fugitiuus seruus nummos tibi crediderit, an condicere tibi dominus possit, quaeritur.
If a runaway slave loans money to you, it is asked whether the owner can recover it from you.
et quidem si seruus meus, cui concessa est peculii administratio, crediderit tibi, erit mutua: fugitiuus autem uel alius seruus contra uoluntatem domini credendo non facit accipientis.
And indeed, if my slave, to whom the administration of his peculium has been granted, loans it to you, it will be a loan. But a runaway slave or any other slave, by loaning against the will of the owner, does not make the money the property of the recipient.
quid ergo? uindicari nummi possunt, si extant, aut, si dolo malo desinant possideri, ad exhibendum agi: quod si sine dolo malo consumpsisti, condicere tibi potero.
What then? The money can be vindicated if it exists, or, if they have ceased to be possessed through malice, an action for production can be brought; but if you have consumed it without malice, I will be able to recover it from you.