[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo nono ad edictum. ] §15.1.17.prSi seruus meus ordinarius uicarios habeat, id quod uicarii mihi debent an deducam ex peculio serui ordinarii? et prima illa quaestio est, an haec peculia in peculio serui ordinarii computentur.
[ULPIANUS in the twenty-ninth book on the Edict.] If my ordinary slave has vicarious slaves, should I deduct what the vicarious slaves owe to me from the peculium of the ordinary slave? And the first question is whether these peculia are computed in the peculium of the ordinary slave.
et Proculus et Atilicinus existimant, sicut ipsi uicarii sunt in peculio, ita etiam peculia eorum: et id quidem, quod mihi dominus eorum, id est ordinarius seruus debet, etiam ex peculio eorum detrahetur: id uero quod ipsi uicarii debent, dumtaxat ex ipsorum peculio: sed et si quid non mihi, sed ordinario seruo debent, deducetur de peculio eorum quasi conseruo debitum: id uero, quod ipsis debet ordinarius seruus, non deducetur de peculio ordinarii serui, quia peculium eorum in peculio ipsius est (et ita Seruius respondit), sed peculium eorum augebitur, ut opinor, quemadmodum si dominus seruo suo debeat.
And both Proculus and Atilicinus think that, just as the vicarious slaves themselves are in the peculium, so also are their peculia; and indeed, what their master—that is, the ordinary slave—owes to me will be deducted also from their peculia; but what the vicarious slaves themselves owe, only from their own peculium. But even if they owe something not to me, but to the ordinary slave, it will be deducted from their peculium as if it were a debt to a fellow slave. On the other hand, what the ordinary slave owes to them will not be deducted from the peculium of the ordinary slave, because their peculia are in his own peculium (and Seruius answered to this effect), but their peculia will be increased, as I think, just as if a master should owe something to his own slave.