[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo septimo ad edictum. ] §13.4.4.prQuod si Ephesi petetur, ipsa sola summa petetur nec aplius quid, nisi si quid esset stipulatus, uel si temporis utilitas interuenit.
[ULPIAN from the twenty-seventh book on the edict.] But if it is sued for at Ephesus, only the sum itself will be sued for, and nothing more, unless some other thing was stipulated, or if the advantage of time intervenes.
§13.4.4.1Interdum iudex, qui ex hac actione cognoscit, cum sit arbitraria, absoluere reum debet coutione ab eo exacta de pecunia ibi soluenda ubi promissa est.
Sometimes the judge who hears the case under this action, since it is discretionary, ought to acquit the defendant after extracting a security from him that the money will be paid at the place where it was promised.
quid enim si ibi uel oblata pecunia actori dicatur uel deposita uel ex facili soluenda? nonne debebit interdum absoluere? in summa aequitatem quoque ante oculos habere debet iudex, qui huic actioni addictus est.
For what if it is said that the money was either offered to the plaintiff there, or deposited, or is ready to be easily paid? Ought he not sometimes to acquit him? In short, the judge who is assigned to this action must also keep equity before his eyes.