Someone else’s gold.
Your work.
You make a vessel from gold you do not own.
Who owns the thing you made?
Gaius reports two rival answers. Keep your own proposal, read the disagreement, then find the limit of an analogy.
Work on the object. Propose an owner.
Lucius supplies the material. Aulus supplies the work. No sale or contract settles the question for you.
What Gaius reports
Does ownership settle every remedy?
Owning the picture. Recovering it.
Gaius 2.77–78 separates ownership from recovery. Hold the reported ownership rule fixed; change who has the object and whether the relevant expense has been paid.
These controls supply facts, not evidence about a real dispute. This separate experiment does not change your kept ownership judgments.
A non-owner has an adapted claim.
The good-faith qualification is explicit. Removing it will not invent a complete rule for bad faith.
Can one rule survive the next craft?
Writing and painting both put work on someone else’s support. An analogy is plausible. The reported rules point in opposite directions.
This is a test of your proposed generalization. The rival positions in 2.79 are not asserted to govern writing, painting or every repair.
Read the direction of “follows”.
Some think. Others think.
Close English translation
Your kept judgments
A kept proposal records its own case, words and chosen citations. Revealing a source does not rewrite it. These are reasoning records, without a score.
Keep the disagreement.
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