[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §47.2.50.prIn furti actione non quod interest quadruplabitur uel duplabitur, sed rei uerum pretium.
[ULPIAN in his thirty-seventh book on the edict.] In an action for theft, it is not the interest (of the plaintiff) that will be quadrupled or doubled, but the true value of the thing.
sed et si res in rebus humanis esse desierit, cum iudicatur, nihilo minus condemnatio facienda est.
But even if the thing has ceased to exist among human affairs when judgment is given, condemnation must nevertheless be made.
itemque et si nunc deterior sit, aestimatione relata in id tempus, quo furtum factum est.
And likewise, even if it is now deteriorated, the valuation being referred back to the time when the theft was committed.
quod si pretiosior facta sit, eius duplum, quanti tunc, cum pretiosior facta est, fuerit, aestimabitur, quia et tunc furtum eius factum esse uerius est.
But if it has become more valuable, its double will be valued at the amount it was worth at the time it became more valuable, because it is more correct to say that a theft of it was committed at that time too.
§47.2.50.1Ope consilio furtum factum Celsus ait non solum, si idcirco fuerit factum, ut socii furarentur, sed et si non, ut socii furarentur, inimicitiarum tamen causa fecerit.
Celsus says that a theft is committed by aid and counsel not only if it was done for the purpose of his accomplices stealing, but also if, even if not for the purpose of his accomplices stealing, he nevertheless did it out of enmity.
§47.2.50.2Recte Pedius ait, sicut nemo furtum facit sine dolo malo, ita nec consilium uel opem ferre sine dolo malo posse.
Pedius rightly says that just as no one commits a theft without malicious intent, so too one cannot provide counsel or aid without malicious intent.
§47.2.50.3Consilium autem dare uidetur, qui persuadet et impellit atque instruit consilio ad furtum faciendum: opem fert, qui ministerium atque adiutorium ad subripiendas res praebet.
Now, a person is deemed to give "counsel" who persuades, urges on, and instructs with advice for the committing of a theft; and he brings "aid" who provides service and assistance for the carrying away of things.
§47.2.50.4Cum eo, qui pannum rubrum ostendit fugauitque pecus, ut in fures incideret, si quidem dolo malo fecit, furti actio est: sed et si non furti faciendi causa hoc fecit, non debet impunitus esse lusus tam perniciosus: idcirco Labeo scribit in factum dandam actionem.
An action for theft lies against one who showed a red rag and put a herd to flight so that they might fall into the hands of thieves, provided he did so with malicious intent; but even if he did not do this for the purpose of committing a theft, such a mischievous prank ought not to go unpunished; therefore Labeo writes that an action on the facts should be granted.