Suffragante consensu amplissimi consultissimique ordinis Iuridicae facultatis, in inclyta & celeberrima Basiliensium Academia, pro consequendis in utroque iure Doctoralibus insignijs, Deo Ter Opt. Max. praeside, Subsequentia de privilegiis creditorum Themata

XLVII.
However, it is not sufficient that the money was explicitly loaned for repairs: some also require that the thing was specifically accepted as a pledge, that the expense was made upon the thing, and finally, that it still exists.

XLVIII.
In competition, however, he who restored and preserved the thing surpasses him who merely gave for its preservation.

XLIX.
For his money made the cause of the entire pledge safe: and therefore he deservedly should be assisted before others.

L.
Furthermore, that creditor who dishonestly denies that the thing belongs to him from whom he derives his cause, becomes a later creditor from a prior one.

LI.
Likewise, he who redeemed a slave from the enemy, if there is a dispute among creditors concerning the right of priority, conquers all other prior ones.

LII.
If anyone also claims a mortgage or pledge based on a public instrument, although he is later, he must nevertheless be preferred over one who claims the same based on a private instrument.

LIII.
Unless that private instrument is duly fortified by the subscription