Epistularum libri
Ex libro XVI
Dig. 50,16,246Idem libro sexto decimo epistularum. Apud Labeonem pithanon ita scriptum est: exhibet, qui praestat eius de quo agitur praesentiam. nam etiam qui sistit, praestat eius de quo agitur praesentiam, nec tamen eum exhibet: et qui mutum aut furiosum aut infantem exhibet, non potest videri eius praestare praesentiam: nemo enim ex eo genere praesens satis apte appellari potest. 1Restituit non tantum, qui solum corpus, sed etiam qui omnem rem condicionemque reddita causa praestet: et tota restitutio iuris est interpretatio.
The Same, Letters, Book XVI. It is stated in the “Probabilities” of Labeo that the expression “To produce” has reference to the exhibition in court of the property in dispute. For anyone who appears in person does not, for that reason, produce the property in dispute; and he who produces a person who is either dumb, insane, or an infant, is not considered to produce him at all; for no one of this kind can, under any circumstances, properly be said to be present. 1The term “restitution” has reference not only to the body of the thing itself, but also to every right and condition attaching to it; hence complete restitution is meant by the law.