[PAULUS libro septimo ad edictum. ] §50.16.14.prLabeo et Sabinus existimant, si uestimentum scissum reddatur uel res corrupta reddita sit, ueluti scyphi collisi aut tabula rasa pictura, uideri rem 'abesse', quoniam earum rerum pretium non in substantia, sed in arte sit positum.
[PAULUS, in the seventh book on the Edict.] Labeo and Sabinus think that if a garment is returned torn or a thing is returned damaged, as for instance crushed cups or a tablet with its painting scraped off, the thing is deemed to be 'absent', because the value of those things lies not in the material, but in the art.
item si dominus rem, quae furto sibi aberat, ignorans emerit, recte dicitur res abesse, etiamsi postea id ita esse scierit, quia uidetur res ei abesse, cui pretium abest.
Likewise, if an owner, without knowing it, buys a thing which had been missing from him by theft, the thing is correctly said to be absent, even if he afterwards knows that this is so, because a thing is deemed to be absent to him from whom its price is absent.
' §50.16.14.1Rem amisisse' uidetur, qui aduersus nullum eius persequendae actionem habet.
A person is deemed to 'have lost a thing' who has no action against anyone for its recovery.