[IAUOLENUS libro quinto ex posterioribus Labeonis. ] §41.2.51.prQuarundam rerum animo possessionem apisci nos ait Labeo: ueluti si aceruum lignorum emero et eum uenditor tollere me iusserit, simul atque custodiam posuissem, traditus mihi uidetur.
[JAVOLENUS, in the fifth book from the Posthumous Works of Labeo.] Labeo says that we acquire possession of certain things by intent; for example, if I buy a pile of wood and the seller orders me to take it away, as soon as I have placed a guard, it seems to be delivered to me.
idem iuris esse uino uendito, cum uniuersae amphorae uini simul essent.
The same rule of law applies when wine is sold, when all the amphorae of wine are together.
sed uideamus, inquit, ne haec ipsa corporis traditio sit, quia nihil interest, utrum mihi an et cuilibet iusserim custodia tradatur.
"But let us consider," he says, "whether this is not itself a physical delivery, because it makes no difference whether the custody is delivered to me or to anyone else whom I have ordered." I think that this question consists in this: whether, even if the pile or the amphorae have not been physically grasped, they are nevertheless deemed to have been delivered.
in eo puto hanc quaestionem consistere, an, etiamsi corpore aceruus aut amphorae adprehensae non sunt, nihilo minus traditae uideantur: nihil uideo interesse, utrum ipse aceruum an mandato meo aliquis custodiat: utrubique animi quodam genere possessio erit aestimanda.
I see no difference whether I myself guard the pile or someone else does so by my command; in either case, possession must be deemed to be acquired by a certain kind of intent.