[ULPIANUS libro sexto decimo ad edictum. ] §6.1.3.prMarcellus libro quarto digestorum scribit: qui gregem habebat capitum trecentorum, amissis centum redemit totidem capita aliena ab eo, qui dominium eorum habebat uel aliena ab eo, qui bona fide ea possidebat: et haec utique gregis, inquit, uindicatione continebuntur.
[ULPIANUS, in the sixteenth book on the Edict.] Marcellus writes in the fourth book of his Digests: a person who had a flock of three hundred heads, having lost one hundred, purchased the same number of heads belonging to another, from the one who had the ownership of them, or belonging to another, from the one who possessed them in good faith; and he says that these also will certainly be included in the claim for the flock.
sed et si ea sola supersint capita, quae redempta sunt, adhuc eum posse gregem uindicare.
But even if only those heads which were purchased should survive, he can still claim the flock.
§6.1.3.1Armamenta nauis singula erunt uindicanda: scapha quoque separatim uindicabitur.
The rigging of a ship must be claimed individually; a boat also shall be claimed separately.
§6.1.3.2Pomponius scribit, si quid quod eiusdem naturae est ita confusum est atque commixtum, ut deduci et separari non possint, non totum, sed pro parte esse uindicandum.
Pomponius writes that if anything which is of the same nature is so confused and mixed together that they cannot be separated and divided, it must be claimed not as a whole, but in proportion.
ut puta meum et tuum argentum in massam redactum est: erit nobis commune, et unusquisque pro rata ponderis quod in massa habemus uindicabimus, etsi incertum sit, quantum quisque ponderis in massa habet.
For example, suppose my silver and yours have been reduced into one mass: it will be common to us, and each of us will claim in proportion to the weight which we have in the mass, even if it is uncertain how much weight each of us has in the mass.