[PAULUS libro tertio ad edictum. ] §2.14.21.pret heredi patris uiuo filio: post mortem uero filii nec patri nec heredi eius, quia personale pactum est.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book 3] and to the heir of the father while the son is living; but after the death of the son, neither to the father nor to his heir, because it is a personal pact.
§2.14.21.1Quod si seruus, ne a se peteretur, pactus fuerit, nihil ualebit pactum: de doli exceptione uideamus.
But if a slave should agree that no claim be made against himself, the pact will be of no validity; let us consider the exception of fraud.
et si in rem paciscatur, proderit domino et heredi eius pacti conuenti exceptio: quod si in personam pactum conceptum est, tunc domino doli superest exceptio.
And if he agrees in rem, the exception of an agreed pact will benefit the master and his heir; but if the pact was conceived in personam, then the exception of fraud remains for the master.
§2.14.21.2Nos autem his, qui in nostra potestate sunt, paciscendo prodesse non possumus: sed nobis id profuturum, si nomine eorum conueniamur, Proculus ait: quod ita recte dicitur, si in paciscendo id actum sit.
However, we cannot benefit those who are in our power by making an agreement; but Proculus says that it will benefit us if we are sued in their name; which is rightly said in this way, if that was intended in the making of the agreement.
ceterum si paciscar, ne a Titio petas, deinde actionem aduersus me nomine eius instituas, non est danda pacti conuenti exceptio: nam quod ipsi inutile est, nec defensori competit.
Otherwise, if I agree that you do not claim from Titius, and then you bring an action against me in his name, the exception of an agreed pact is not to be granted; for what is useless to the person himself is not available to his defender either.
§2.14.21.3Filia familias pacisci potest, ne de dote agat, cum sui iuris esse coeperit.
A daughter under power can agree not to sue for her dowry when she begins to be sui iuris.
§2.14.21.4Item filius familias de eo, quod sub condicione legatum est, recte paciscetur.
Likewise, a son under power will rightly agree concerning that which has been bequeathed under a condition.
§2.14.21.5In his, qui eiusdem pecuniae exactionem habent in solidum uel qui eiusdem pecuniae debitores sunt, quatenus alii quoque prosit uel noceat pacti exceptio, quaeritur.
Among those who have the collection of the same money in full, or who are debtors of the same money, it is questioned to what extent the exception of a pact also benefits or harms another.
et in rem pacta omnibus prosunt, quorum obligationem dissolutam esse eius qui paciscebatur interfuit.
And pacts in rem benefit all those whose interest it was that the obligation be dissolved by the one who was agreeing.
itaque debitoris conuentio fideiussoribus proficiet,
Therefore, the agreement of the debtor will benefit the sureties,