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61. But if separation becomes difficult, as if bronze has been joined to gold, one will not proceed by action for exhibition, but the plaintiff will be forced to claim his part in proportion to the weight.
62. Furthermore, not only is the thing to be restored to the claimant, but also the entire cause of the thing, or every benefit that the petitioner would have had if the thing had been restored to him at the time the judgment was accepted.
63. Wherefore, neither will usucaption acquisition of ownership by continuous possession completed after the lawsuit is contested hinder the claim.
64. Indeed, it cannot even be held as completed, since the thing must be restored to the state it was in at the time the lawsuit was contested.
65. Hence it is that the offspring of a female slave, even if it was born after the possessor accepted the lawsuit regarding the mother, must be restored.
66. In which case the possessor will also provide a guarantee against fraud, namely that he has not pledged or manumitted the slave girl, or another human being, after the lawsuit was contested.
67. Fruits proceeds or produce of any kind perceived after the lawsuit was contested, or which could have been perceived by the owner, must also be restored.
68. As well as those that were perceived before the lawsuit was contested, if only they still exist and have been specifically requested.
69. Otherwise, things that were done before the judgment was accepted do not greatly pertain to the office of the judge.
70. A possessor in bad faith restores consumed items, whereas a possessor in good faith gains them.
71. But also inheritances and legacies, and if anything else has come to the possessor through a slave not from his own affair after the lawsuit was contested, they shall be restored.