[IULIANUS libro trigesimo quarto digestorum. ] §30.1.86.prSi tibi homo, quem pignori dederas, legatus ab alio fuerit, actionem ex testamento habebis aduersus heredem, ut pignus luatur. §30.1.86.1Si testamento Stichus ab uno herede legatus fuerit Maeuio et eidem codicillis idem Stichus ab omnibus heredibus et antequam codicilli aperirentur Maeuius litis aestimationem consecutus fuerit, ipso iure uindicari ex codicillis non potest, quia testator semel legatum ad eum peruenire uoluit. §30.1.86.2Cum seruus legatur, et ipsius serui status et omnium, quae personam eius attingunt, in suspenso est.
[JULIANUS, Digest, book 34.]\n\n If a slave whom you had given in pledge should be bequeathed to you by another, you will have an action on the testament against the heir, so that the pledge may be redeemed.\n\n If by testament Stichus should be bequeathed to Maevius by one heir, and by codicils the same Stichus to the same person by all the heirs, and before the codicils were opened, Maevius obtained the valuation of the litigation, he cannot by operation of law claim the slave under the codicils, because the testator wished the legacy to reach him only once.\n\n When a slave is bequeathed, both the status of the slave himself and of all things which touch his person are in suspense.
nam si legatarius reppulerit a se legatum, numquam eius fuisse uidebitur: si non reppulerit, ex die aditae hereditatis eius intellegetur.
For if the legatee rejects the legacy, the slave will be deemed never to have belonged to him; if he does not reject it, the slave will be understood to have been his from the day the inheritance was accepted.
secundum hanc regulam et de iure eorum, quae per traditionem seruus acceperit aut stipulatus fuerit, deque his, quae legata ei uel donata fuerunt, statuetur, ut uel heredis uel legatarii seruus singula gessisse existimetur. §30.1.86.3Si fundus ab omnibus heredibus legatus sit, qui unius heredis esset, is quidem cuius fundus esset non amplius quam partem suam praestabit, ceteri in reliquas partes tenebuntur. §30.1.86.4Ualet legatum, si superficies legata sit ei, cuius in solo fuerit, licet is dominus soli sit: nam consequetur, ut hac seruitute liberetur et superficiem lucrifaciat.
According to this rule, decisions will also be made concerning the right to those things which the slave acquired by delivery or stipulated for, and concerning those things which were bequeathed or given to him, so that the slave may be deemed to have transacted each matter either as the slave of the heir or as the slave of the legatee.\n\n If a land should be bequeathed by all the heirs, which was the property of one of the heirs, he indeed whose land it was shall perform no more than his own share, and the others shall be liable for the remaining shares.\n\n The legacy is valid if the superficies is bequeathed to him on whose soil it was, although he is the owner of the soil; for he will obtain the result of being freed from this servitude and of gaining the superficies.