[GAIUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §47.9.5.prSi quis ex naufragio uel ex incendio ruinaue seruatam rem et alio loco positam subtraxerit aut rapuerit, furti scilicet aut alias ui bonorum raptorum iudicio tenetur, maxime si non intellegebat ex naufragio uel incendio ruinaue eam esse.
[GAIUS, on the Provincial Edict, book twenty-one.] If anyone should steal or plunder a thing that has been saved from a shipwreck, fire, or collapse, and placed in another location, he is, of course, liable to an action for theft or, as the case may be, for property taken by force, especially if he did not know that it was from a shipwreck, fire, or collapse.
iacentem quoque rem ex naufragio, quae fluctibus expulsa sit, si quis abstulerit, plerique idem putant.
Most authorities hold the same view if anyone should carry away a thing lying on the ground from a shipwreck, which has been cast up by the waves.
quod ita uerum est, si aliquod tempus post naufragium intercesserit: alioquin si in ipso naufragii tempore id acciderit, nihil interest, utrum ex ipso mari quisque rapiat an ex naufragiis an ex litore.
This is true only if some time has elapsed after the shipwreck; otherwise, if it happened at the very time of the shipwreck, it makes no difference whether a person plunders from the sea itself, from the shipwrecks, or from the shore.
de eo quoque, quod ex rate naue expugnata raptum sit, eandem interpretationem adhibere debemus.
We must apply the same interpretation also to that which has been plundered from a raft or ship that has been captured.