[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo nono ad edictum. ] §15.1.5.prDepositi nomine pater uel dominus dumtaxat de peculio conueniuntur et si quid dolo malo eorum captus sum.
[ULPIANUS, On the Edict, Book 29] On the ground of deposit, a father or master is sued only to the extent of the peculium, and also if I have been defrauded by any wilful deceit of theirs.
§15.1.5.1Sed et si precario res filio familias uel seruo data sit, dumtaxat de peculio pater dominusue obligantur.
But also, if property has been granted to a son-in-power or a slave by precarium, the father or master is liable only to the extent of the peculium.
§15.1.5.2Si filius familias iusiurandum detulerit et iuratum sit, de peculio danda est actio, quasi contractum sit: sed in seruo diuersum est.
If a son-in-power has tendered the oath and the oath has been taken, an action on the peculium must be granted as if a contract had been made; but in the case of a slave it is different.
§15.1.5.3Peculium dictum est quasi pusilla pecunia siue patrimonium pusillum.
Peculium is so called as if it were a small amount of money (pusilla pecunia) or a small patrimony (patrimonium pusillum).
§15.1.5.4Peculium autem Tubero quidem sic definit, ut Celsus libro sexto digestorum refert, quod seruus domini permissu separatum a rationibus dominicis habet, deducto inde si quid domino debetur.
Moreover, Tubero indeed defines peculium in this way, as Celsus reports in the sixth book of his Digests, as that which a slave, with the master's permission, holds separately from the master's accounts, with any debt owed to the master deducted therefrom.