[IDEM libro quadragensimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §17.1.19.prSi seruus meus de semet emendo mandaret, ut redimatur, Pomponius eleganter tractat, an is, qui seruum redemerit, ultro conuenire possit uenditorem, ut seruum recipiat, quoniam mandati actio ultro citroque est.
[THE SAME in his forty-third book on Sabinus.] If my slave should give a mandate concerning buying himself, so that he may be ransomed, Pomponius elegantly discusses whether he who has ransomed the slave can of his own accord sue the seller to take back the slave, since the action of mandate is reciprocal.
sed esse iniquissimum Pomponius ait ex facto serui mei cogi me seruum recipere, quem in perpetuum alienari uolueram, nec magis in hunc casum debeo mandati teneri, quam ut eum tibi uenderem.
But Pomponius says that it is most unjust that I should be compelled by the act of my slave to take back a slave whom I had wished to alienate forever, nor in this case ought I to be held liable under mandate any more than to sell him to you.