Theses de pignorationibus

one must obey the mandate regarding the release of the pledged person.

XX.
The process of the Constitution on pignorations is twofold: namely, Mandate and Citation.

XXI.
In the point (as they call it) of the Mandate, it is enjoined upon the pignorator under penalty that the mandate (which is usually decreed in cases of pignoration without a justificatory clause) be inserted, so that he may release the captured person above all else, or restore the thing taken as a pledge, and prove by instrument that he has fully complied with the mandate.

XXII.
And all those things must be expedited immediately and without any exception.

XXIII.
However, an exception of crime is admitted against compliance.

XXIV.
Therefore, if the subject of another has been captured due to a crime committed, the exception of crime may be opposed based on the disposition of the Constitution itself.

XXV.
In the case of a citation regarding a pignoration that has been made, the cited party must appear at the prefixed term and deduce the causes of the pignoration under penalty of perpetual silence.

XXVI.
The victor in this judgment, if disturbed again, is defended by the exception of a matter judged, and obtains an inhibition or an inhibitory (as they call it) mandate against the disturber.

XXVII.
Which, however, is true insofar as he is disturbed in the same place, or by the same person, or for the sake of the same right.