[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad Sabinum. ] §28.5.6.prSed si condicioni dies sit adiectus, ut puta: 'si Capitolium intra dies triginta ascenderit', tantundem potest dici: ut, si non paruerit condicioni, substitutus possit admitti filio repulso, consequens est sententiae Iuliani et nostrae.
[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad Sabinum.] But if a time limit is added to the condition, for example: 'if he shall have ascended the Capitol within thirty days', the very same thing can be said: namely, that if he has not complied with the condition, a substitute can be admitted and the son rejected, which is consistent with the opinion of Julian and our own.
§28.5.6.1Nepotes autem et deinceps ceteri, qui ex lege Uellea instituti non rumpunt testamenta, sub omni condicione institui possunt, etsi redigantur ad filii condicionem.
On the other hand, grandsons and subsequent descendants, who being instituted under the Lex Velleia do not break testaments, can be instituted under any condition, even if they are reduced to the position of a son.
§28.5.6.2Solemus dicere media tempora non nocere, ut puta ciuis Romanus heres scriptus uiuo testatore factus peregrinus mox ciuitatem Romanam peruenit: media tempora non nocent.
We are accustomed to say that intermediate times do not harm; for example, a Roman citizen written as heir, having become a foreigner during the lifetime of the testator, soon after attains Roman citizenship: the intermediate times do not harm.
seruus alienus sub condicione heres scriptus traditus est seruus hereditario, mox usucaptus ab extraneo: non est uitiata institutio.
A slave belonging to another, written as heir under a condition, is delivered as a slave to the inheritance, and soon after is acquired by usucapion by a stranger: the institution is not invalidated.
§28.5.6.3Si seruum communem cum libertate dominus heredem scripserit et eum redemerit, necessarius efficietur.
If a master writes a common slave as heir along with freedom and redeems him, he will be made a necessary heir.
sed si substitutus sit impuberi et partem redemerit impubes, necessarius non efficietur, ut Iulianus scribit.
But if he has been substituted for a pupillus and the pupillus redeems his share, he will not be made a necessary heir, as Julian writes.
§28.5.6.4Sed si sit cum libertate institutus, an ei libertatis datio codicillis adimi possit, apud Iulianum quaeritur.
But if he is instituted along with freedom, whether the grant of freedom can be taken away from him by codicils is questioned in Julian.
et putat in eum casum, quo necessarius fieret, ademptionem non ualere, ne a semet ipso ei adimatur libertas: seruus enim heres institutus a semet ipso libertatem accipit.
And he thinks that in the case where he would become a necessary heir, the taking away is not valid, lest freedom be taken away from him by himself; for a slave instituted heir receives freedom from himself.
quae sententia habet rationem: nam sicuti legari sibi non potest, ita nec a se adimi.
Which opinion has reason: for just as a legacy cannot be left to oneself, so neither can it be taken away from oneself.