[POMPONIUS libro primo senatus consultorum. ] §16.1.32.prSi mulier hereditatem alicuius adeat, ut aes alienum eius suscipiat, uix est, ut succurri ei debeat, nisi si fraude creditorum id conceptum sit: nec enim loco minoris uiginti quinque annis circumscripti per omnia habenda est mulier. §16.1.32.1Si mulier rem a se pignori datam per intercessionem recipere uelit, fructus etiam liberos recipit et, si res deterior facta fuerit, eo nomine magis aestimetur.
[POMPONIUS, On the Senate's Decrees, Book I.] a woman enters upon someone's inheritance in order to assume his debt, it is scarcely possible that she should be relieved, unless this was devised by the fraud of the creditors; for a woman is not to be regarded in all respects as in the position of a minor under twenty-five who has been defrauded. a woman wishes to recover a thing given by herself as a pledge through intercession, she receives also the fruits free of charge, and if the thing has been made worse, it should be valued higher on that account.
sed si creditor, qui pignus per intercessionem acceperit, hoc alii uendidit, uera est eorum opinio, qui petitionem dandam ei putant et aduersus bonae fidei emptorem, ne melioris condicionis emptor sit, quam fuerit uenditor. §16.1.32.2Item si mulier creditori uiri fundum uendidit et tradidit ea condicione, ut emptor acceptam pecuniam uiro referret, et hunc fundum uindicat, exceptio quidem opponitur ei de re empta et tradita, sed replicabitur a muliere: 'aut si ea uenditio contra senatus consultum facta sit. ' et hoc procedit, siue ipse creditor emerit siue interposuerit alium, quo mulier ea ratione careat re sua.
But if the creditor, who received the pledge through intercession, sold this to another, the opinion of those who think that an action should be given to her even against a bona fide purchaser is correct, lest the purchaser be in a better position than the seller was., if a woman has sold and delivered a tract of land to her husband's creditor on condition that the purchaser return the received money to her husband, and she claims this land, the exception of the thing sold and delivered is indeed opposed to her, but she will reply: 'or if that sale was made contrary to the senate's decree.' And this holds good, whether the creditor himself purchased it or interposed another, so that the woman might be deprived of her property by that means.
idem est et si non pro uiro, sed pro alio debitore rem suam tradidit. §16.1.32.3Si mulier, ne ipsa intercederet, alii mandaret ut id faceret, an in huius persona locus huic senatus consulto sit, qui rogatu mulieris id faceret? totus enim sermo senatus consulti ad petitionem non dandam aduersus ipsam mulierem spectat.
The same is true if she delivered her property not for her husband, but for another debtor. a woman, in order not to intercede herself, should mandate another to do so, does this senate's decree apply in the person of him who does this at the woman's request? For the whole wording of the senate's decree is directed towards not granting an action against the woman herself.
et puto rem ita esse distinguendam, ut, si quidem creditor, cui me obligaui mandante muliere, hoc in fraudem senatus consulti egisset, ne ipsa interueniret contra senatus consultum, daret autem alium, excludendum eum exceptione fraudis senatus consulti factae: si uero is ignorasset, ego autem scissem, tunc mandati me agentem cum muliere excludendum esse, me autem creditori teneri. §16.1.32.4Si mulier pro eo, pro quo intercesserit, iudicium parata sit accipere, ut non in ueterem debitorem actio detur: quoniam senatus consulti exceptionem opponere potest, cauere debebit exceptione se non usuram et sic ad iudicem ire. §16.1.32.5Intercedere mulierem intellegendum est etiam pro eo, qui obligari non possit, ueluti si pro seruo alieno intercedit: sed rescissa intercessione in dominum restituenda est actio.
And I think the matter should be distinguished thus: if indeed the creditor, to whom I bound myself by mandate of the woman, did this in fraud of the senate's decree, so that she herself would not intervene contrary to the senate's decree but would provide another, he should be excluded by the exception of fraud committed against the senate's decree; but if he was ignorant, and I knew, then I, bringing an action on mandate against the woman, should be excluded, but I am liable to the creditor. a woman is ready to accept trial on behalf of him for whom she interceded, so that an action is not given against the former debtor: since she can oppose the exception of the senate's decree, she must guarantee that she will not use the exception, and so go to the judge. woman is to be understood as interceding also for one who cannot be bound, as, for example, if she intercedes for another's slave; but when the intercession is rescinded, the action must be restored against the master.