Chapter on Miscellaneous Rulings Concerning Usurpation

If a person seizes a free man and compels him to work, he must pay him the prevailing wage for someone of his standing. The same ruling applies if he usurps the labor of a slave or the craftsmanship of that slave’s hands while conceding that the slave’s ownership belongs to another; he must pay the slave’s master an equivalent wage. Likewise, if he usurps