[MARCELLUS libro decimo digestorum. ] §29.1.29.prSi a milite scriptus heres sua sponte adierit hereditatem et rogatus totam hereditatem restituerit, ex Trebelliano transeunt actiones.
[MARCELLUS, in his tenth book of the Digests.] If an heir appointed by a soldier has entered upon the inheritance of his own accord, and, on being requested, has restored the entire inheritance, the actions transfer under the Trebellian decree.
§29.1.29.1Miles testamento suo manumittendo nihil efficit in eo, cuius libertas lege Aelia Sentia uel alia qua impeditur.
A soldier, by manumitting in his will, effects nothing in the case of a person whose freedom is hindered by the Lex Aelia Sentia or by any other law.
§29.1.29.2Edictum praetoris, quo iusiurandum heredibus institutis legatariisque remittitur, locum habet etiam in militum testamentis, sicut etiam in fideicommissis: idemque si turpis esset condicio.
The Praetor's edict, by which an oath is remitted to appointed heirs and legatees, applies also to the testaments of soldiers, as indeed it does to fideicommissa; and the same holds true if the condition is immoral.
§29.1.29.3Patri eius, qui in emancipatione ipse manumissor exstitisset, contra tabulas testamenti dandam bonorum possessionem partis debitae placet exceptis his rebus, quas in castris adquisisset, quarum liberam testamenti factionem habet:
It is accepted that the bonorum possessio contra tabulas for the due share should be granted to the father of a person who, in emancipation, had himself stood as the manumitter; with the exception of those assets which the son had acquired in camp, concerning which he has the free power of making a testament.