[PAULUS libro trigesimo sexto ad edictum. ] §24.1.36.prSi donatae res exstant, etiam uindicari poterunt: sed quia causam possidendi donatio praestitit, nisi reddatur res, aestimatio facienda est iusto pretio cauerique possidenti debebit de euictione simpli, quanti ea res sit: idque etiam Pedio uidetur.
[PAULUS in his thirty-sixth book on the Edict.] If the donated objects exist, they can also be vindicated; but because the donation provided a cause for possession, unless the object is returned, an assessment must be made at a fair price, and security must be provided to the possessor against eviction for the single value, representing how much that thing is worth; and this also seems correct to Pedius.
§24.1.36.1Sponsus alienum anulum sponsae muneri misit et post nuptias pro eo suum dedit: quidam et Nerua putant fieri eum mulieris, quia tunc factam donationem confirmare uidetur, non nouam inchoare, quam sententiam ueram esse accepi.
A fiancé sent another person's ring to his fiancée as a gift, and after the wedding gave his own ring in place of it; some, and also Nerva, think that it becomes the woman's property, because he seems to confirm the donation made at that time, not to begin a new one, which opinion I accept as true.