De adsignatione libertorum libri
Dig. 23,2,59Paulus libro singulari de adsignatione libertorum. Senatus consulto, quo cautum est, ne tutor pupillam vel filio suo vel sibi nuptum collocet, etiam nepos significatur.
Paulus, Concerning the Assignment of Freedmen. By the Decree of the Senate, in which it is provided that a guardian cannot either give his ward in marriage to his son, or marry her himself, his grandson also is meant.
Dig. 28,3,14Paulus libro singulari de adsignatione libertorum. Si ita facta sit exheredatio: ‘si filius natus natave sit, exheres esto’, utrisque natis non rumpitur testamentum.
Paulus, Concerning the Assignment of Freedmen. Where disinheritance is expressed as follows: “If a male or female child should be born, let it be disinherited”; and both are born, the will is not broken.
Dig. 34,2,30Paulus libro singulari de adsignatione libertorum. Si quis ita legaverit: ‘uxori meae mundum ornamenta seu quae eius causa paravi, do lego’, placet omnia deberi, sicuti cum ita legatur: ‘Titio vina, quae in urbe habeo seu in portu, do lego’, omnia deberi: hoc enim verbum ‘seu’ ampliandi legati gratia positum est.
Paulus, On the Allotment of Freedmen. Where anyone bequeaths a legacy as follows, “I give and bequeath to my wife her toilet articles, her ornaments, or everything which I have acquired for her use,” it is well established that everything is due. Likewise, when a bequest is made as follows, “I give and bequeath to Titius the wine which I have in the city, or in the harbor,” he will be entitled to all of them; for the word “or” is introduced for the purpose of extending the scope of the legacy.
Dig. 34,4,15Paulus libro singulari de adsignatione libertorum. Cum servus legatus a testatore et alienatus rursus redemptus sit a testatore, non debetur legatario opposita exceptione doli mali. sane si probet legatarius novam voluntatem testatoris, non submovebitur.
Paulus, On the Allotment of Freedmen. Where a slave bequeathed by a testator is alienated, and then repurchased by him, he will not be due to the legatee, against whom an exception on the ground of bad faith may be interposed. It is evident, however, that he will not be barred by it if the legatee can prove that the testator had renewed his intention to give him the slave.
Dig. 50,17,69Idem libro singulari de adsignatione libertorum. Invito beneficium non datur.
The Same, Concerning the Assignment of Freedmen. A benefit is not conferred upon a person who is unwilling to accept it.