§ V. On Recourse, or on One Receiving, or Furnishing Recourse

771. • 1° One receiving, namely one who knowingly and freely furnishes security and convenience to a malefactor as malefactor, so that he may either inflict evil more confidently, or not repair it after it has been inflicted, is bound concerning the damages thence coming. For thus he determines efficaciously and unjustly the will of the thief in the purpose either of stealing, or of not restoring, or of stealing again, or makes it firmer.

2° Likewise merchants and especially innkeepers are bound to restitution who receive thefts of children of the family, servants, etc., or conceal them, or are even accustomed to vindicate them for themselves as the price of merchandise, drinking-bouts, etc.

3° Among those receiving are not to be counted those who receive at home friends or blood-relatives who are malefactors; nor those who hide them under hope of amendment, or show them the way by which they can flee, when they are being sought for prison or for death.¹