[IDEM libro nono decimo quaestionum. ] §29.7.13.prIllud enim sine dubio dici non potest etiam filiam manumittere cogendam, cum ab ea nihil pater petierit et iure suo heres exstiterit.
[THE SAME, in his nineteenth book of Questions.] For indeed, it cannot without doubt be said that the daughter also is to be compelled to manumit, since the father has requested nothing from her and she has become heir by her own right.
§29.7.13.1Tractari solet de eo, qui, cum tabulas testamenti non fecisset, codicillis ita scripsit: 'Titium heredem esse uolo'. sed multum interest, utrum fideicommissariam hereditatem a legitimo per hanc scripturam, quam codicillorum instar habere uoluit, reliquerit an uero testamentum facere se existimauerit: nam hoc casu nihil a legitimo peti poterit.
It is customary to discuss the case of one who, when he had not made a written will, wrote thus in a codicil: "I wish Titius to be heir." But there is a great difference, whether he left a trust-inheritance from the intestate heir through this writing, which he wished to have the status of a codicil, or whether he believed himself to be making a will: for in the latter case nothing can be claimed from the intestate heir.
uoluntatis autem quaestio ex eo scripto plerumque declarabitur: nam si forte a Titio legata reliquit, substitutum adscripsit, heres si non exstitisset, sine dubio non codicillos, sed testamentum facere uoluisse intellegetur.
Moreover, the question of intention will for the most part be clarified from that writing: for if by chance he left legacies to be paid by Titius, or added a substitute heir in case he did not become heir, he will without doubt be understood to have wished to make a will, and not a codicil.