[IDEM libro trigesimo primo ad edictum. ] §19.5.19.prRogasti me, ut tibi nummos mutuos darem: ego cum non haberem, dedi tibi rem uendendam, ut pretio utereris.
[THE SAME, in the thirty-first book on the Edict.] You asked me to give you money as a loan; since I did not have it, I gave you a thing to be sold, so that you might use the price.
si non uendidisti aut uendidisti quidem, pecuniam autem non accepisti mutuam, tutius est ita agere, ut Labeo ait, praescriptis uerbis, quasi negotio quodam inter nos gesto proprii contractus.
If you did not sell it, or if you did sell it but did not receive the money as a loan, it is safer, as Labeo says, to sue on prescribed words, as if some transaction of a contract of its own kind had been carried out between us.
§19.5.19.1Si praedium pro te obligauero, deinde placuerit inter nos, ut mihi fideiussorem praestares, nec facias, melius esse dico praescriptis uerbis agi, nisi merces interuenit: nam si interuenit, ex locato esse actionem.
If I have mortgaged an estate on your behalf, and it was subsequently agreed between us that you should provide a surety for me, and you do not do so, I say that it is better to sue on prescribed words, unless a fee has intervened; for if it has intervened, the action is on letting.