[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §46.3.19.prFugitiuus meus, cum pro libero se gereret, nummos mihi subreptos credidit tibi: obligari te mihi Labeo ait et, si eum liberum existimans solueris ei, liberari te a me, sed si alii soluisses iussu eius uel is ratum habuisset, non liberari, quia priore casu mei nummi facti essent et quasi mihi solutum intellegeretur.
[POMPONIUS in the twenty-first book on Sabinus.] My runaway slave, while conducting himself as a free man, lent to you money stolen from me: Labeo says that you are obligated to me, and that, if, thinking him to be a free man, you have paid him, you are released from me, but if you had paid to another by his order, or if he had ratified it, you are not released, because in the former case the coins would have become mine and it would be understood as if payment had been made to me.
et ideo seruus meus quod peculiari nomine crediderit, exigendo liberabit debitorem, delegando autem uel nouando non idem consequeretur.
And therefore, my slave will release the debtor by collecting what he has lent under the name of his peculium, but by delegating or by novating he would not achieve the same.