[PAPINIANUS libro uicesimo sexto quaestionum. ] §20.5.1.prCreditor qui praedia pignori accepit et post alium creditorem, qui pignorum conuentionem ad bona debitoris contulit, ipse quoque simile pactum bonorum ob alium aut eundem contractum interposuit, ante secundum creditorem dimissum nullo iure cetera bona titulo pignoris uendidit.
[PAPINIANUS from the twenty-sixth book of Questions.] A creditor who accepted land as a pledge, and who afterwards, subsequent to another creditor who had extended a pledge agreement over the debtor's property, himself also inserted a similar agreement over the property for another or the same contract, sold the rest of the property under the title of pledge without any right before the second creditor was paid.
sed ob eam rem in personam actio contra eum creditori, qui pignora sua requirit, non competit nec utilis danda est: nec furti rerum mobilium gratia recte conuenietur, quia propriam causam ordinis errore ductus persecutus uidetur, praesertim cum alter creditor furto possessionem, quae non fuit apud eum, non amisserit.
But on account of this matter, a personal action against him does not lie in favor of the creditor who seeks his own pledges, nor should an analogous action be granted. Nor will he be rightly sued on account of the theft of movable things, because he seems to have pursued his own claim, being led by a mistake of order, especially since the other creditor did not lose by theft a possession which was not with him.
ad exhibendum quoque frustra litem excipiet, quia neque possidet neque dolo fecit, ut desineret possidere.
Also, a suit for production will be defended by him in vain, because he neither possesses nor has acted with malice so that he should cease to possess.
sequitur, ut secundus creditor possessores interpellare debeat.
It follows that the second creditor must sue the possessors.