If a man shall cause a field, &c.— This equitable law of restitution extended to all cases. The law of the twelve tables was more severe upon this head, as Calmet observes; for there it is enjoined, that if any one cut down, or let his cattle eat another's field; if he be of age, he shall be consecrated to Ceres; if under age, he shall be beaten as the praetor shall order, and make double restitution. This verse might be rendered, much more properly, thus, When any man shall cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten, sending out his own beast, which shall feed upon the field of another; of the best, &c.
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Exodus 22:5
5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.