[SCAEUOLA libro septimo digestorum. ] §18.7.10.prCum uenderet Pamphilam et Stichum, uenditioni inseruit pactum conuentum, uti ne eadem mancipia Pamphila et Stichus, quos minorato pretio uendidit, alterius seruitutem quam Seii paterentur post mortemque eius in libertate morarentur: quaesitum est, an haec mancipia, de quibus inter emptorem et uenditorem conuenit, post mortem emptoris iure ipso liberata sint.
[SCAEUOLA in the seventh book of the Digests.] When he sold Pamphila and Stichus, he inserted into the sale an agreed pact that the same slaves Pamphila and Stichus, whom he sold at a reduced price, should not suffer the servitude of anyone other than Seius, and after his death should remain in freedom. The question was asked whether these slaves, concerning whom it was agreed between the buyer and the seller, were liberated by operation of law after the death of the buyer.
respondit secundum constitutionem diui Hadriani super hoc prolatam Pamphilam et Stichum, de quibus quaereretur, si manumissi non sint, liberos non esse.
He answered that, according to the constitution of the divine Hadrian issued on this matter, Pamphila and Stichus, who were the subject of the inquiry, were not free if they had not been manumitted.
CLAUDIUS: Diuus Marcus ex lege dicta libertatis in uendendo quamuis non manumissos fore liberos in semenstribus constituit, licet in mortis tempus emptoris distulit uenditor libertatem.
CLAUDIUS: The divine Marcus, on the basis of a condition of freedom declared in a sale, decided in his Semestria that they would be free although they had not been manumitted, even if the seller postponed the freedom to the time of the buyer's death.