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The praetor, however, has introduced a peculiar actio in this case, called vi bonorum raptorum; by which, if brought within a year after the robbery, quadruple the value of the thing taken may be...

If he is ignorant or uncertain of this, and therefore sues the borrower, and then subsequently learns the true state of the case, and wishes to have recourse to an actio of theft, he...

14. Hence, a creditor may bring this actio if a thing pledged to him is stolen, although his debtor is solvent, because it may be more advantageous to him to rely upon his pledge...

9. Sometimes there may be a theft of free persons, as if one of our children in our power is carried away.10. A man may even commit a theft of his own property, as,...

6. It is theft, not only when anyone takes away a thing belonging to another, in order to appropriate it, but generally when anyone deals with the property of another contrary to the wishes...

We must also extend manifest theft to the case of a thief seen or seized by the owner or any one else in a public or private place, while still holding the thing he...

The same would hold in the case of any other animal or any other thing, but the seller is in any case bound to make over to the purchaser his right to a real...

2. The price should consist in a sum of money. It has been much doubted whether it can consist in anything else, as in a slave, a piece of land, or a toga. Sabinus...

Thus these contracts may be entered into by those who are at a distance from each other by means of letters, for instance, or of messengers. In these contracts each party is bound to...

5. It is customary to insert a particular place in a stipulatio, as, for instance, “Do you engage to give me at Carthage?” and this stipulatio, although it appears to be made simply, yet...