[Paulus libro quarto ad Sabinum. ] §33.8.9.prId quod seruo, qui in ipsius peculio est, debetur, non deducitur ex legato peculio, quamuis conseruus eius sit.
[PAULUS on Sabinus, Book IV] What is owed to a slave who is in his own peculium is not deducted from the legacyed peculium, although he is his fellow slave.
§33.8.9.1Si conseruum suum uulnerauerit seruus et uiliorem fecerit, Marcellus non esse dubitandum deduci ex peculio, quod domino interesset (nam quid interest, conseruum uulneret an scindat aliquid uel frangat an subripiat? quo casu sine dubio minuitur peculium), sed non ultra simplum.
If a slave has wounded his fellow slave and made him of less value, Marcellus says that there is no doubt that it is deducted from the peculium because it is of interest to the master (for what difference does it make whether he wounds a fellow slave, or cuts, breaks, or steals something? in which case the peculium is without doubt diminished), but not beyond the single value.
§33.8.9.2Sed si se uulnerauit uel etiam occidit, nihil est deducendum hoc nomine: alioquin dicemus et si fugerit, deducendum id, quanto uilior sit factus propter fugam.
But if he has wounded or even killed himself, nothing is to be deducted on this account; otherwise we shall say that if he has run away, there must be deducted the amount by which he was made of less value because of his flight.