Fideicommissorum libri
Ex libro III
Dig. 40,5,34Pomponius libro tertio fideicommissorum. Invitus is, cui fideicommisso libertas relicta est, non est tradendus alii, ut ab eo manumittatur et fiat alterius libertus, quam qui rogatus est manumittere. 1Campanus ait, si minor annis viginti rogaverit heredem, ut proprium servum manumittat, praestandam ei libertatem, quia hic lex Aelia Sentia locum non habet. 2Servus legatus erat Calpurnio Flacco isque rogatus erat eum manumittere et, si non manumississet, idem servus Titio legatus erat et is aeque rogatus erat, ut eum manumitteret: si non manumississet, liber esse iussus erat. Sabinus dicit inutiliter legatum fore et ex testamento eum continuo liberum futurum.
Pomponius, Trusts, Book III. When the person to whom a slave is left to be liberated under a trust is unwilling, the slave should not be delivered to him in order to be manumitted; but he can become the freedman of another than the one who was requested to emancipate him. 1Campanus says that if a minor of twenty years of age should ask his heir to manumit a slave who belongs to him, his freedom must be granted; because, in this instance, the Lex Ælia Sentia does not apply. 2A slave was bequeathed to Calpurnius Flaccus, who was charged to manumit him, and if he refused, the same slave was bequeathed to Titius, who was also charged to manumit him; and if he should fail to do so, the slave was ordered to be free. Sabinus says that the legacy is void, and that the slave will become free immediately by the terms of the will.