[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo ad Sabinum. ] §34.2.19.prCum aurum uel argentum legatum est, quidquid auri argentique relictum sit, legato continetur siue factum siue infectum: pecuniam autem signatam placet eo legato non contineri.
[ULPIANUS, in his twentieth book on Sabinus.] When gold or silver is bequeathed, whatever gold and silver is left is included in the legacy, whether fashioned or unfashioned; but it is held that coined money is not included in that legacy.
§34.2.19.1Proinde si certum pondus auri sit legatum uel argenti, magis quantitas legata uidetur, nec ex uasis tanget.
Accordingly, if a certain weight of gold or silver is bequeathed, it is rather a quantity that is deemed to have been bequeathed, and the legatee will not take it from the vessels.
§34.2.19.2Sed si argenti facti pondo centum sint legata, ex facto argento debebitur legatum.
But if one hundred pounds of wrought silver are bequeathed, the legacy must be paid out of the wrought silver.
unde est quaesitum apud Celsum, an et uascula possit separare: et scripsit uascula non separaturum, licet ei optio fuerit relicta.
Hence it was asked in Celsus, whether he can also select individual vessels; and he wrote that he cannot select the vessels, even though an option had been left to him.
§34.2.19.3Idem Celsus libro nono decimo quaestionum quaerit, si centum pondo argenti fuerint relicta, an replumbari debeant, ut sic appendantur.
The same Celsus, in the nineteenth book of his Questions, asks whether, if one hundred pounds of silver are left, the lead should be removed so that they may be weighed in this manner.
et Proculus et Celsus aiunt exempto plumbo appendi debere: nam et emptoribus replumbatae adsignantur et in rationes argenti pondus sic defertur: quae sententia habet rationem.
And both Proculus and Celsus say that they must be weighed with the lead removed; for they are also delivered to buyers with the lead removed, and the weight is thus entered in the silver accounts; this opinion is reasonable.
§34.2.19.4Plane si cui uascula argentea, ut puta lances quadratae sint legatae, etiam plumbum, quo continentur, eum sequetur.
Clearly, if silver vessels, such as square platters, are bequeathed to anyone, the lead by which they are held together will also go with them to him.
§34.2.19.5Simili modo quaeritur, si cui argentum legetur, an emblemata aurea quae in eo sunt eum sequantur.
In like manner, it is asked whether, if silver is bequeathed to anyone, the golden ornaments which are on it go with it to him.
et Pomponius libro quinto ex Sabino distinguit multum interesse, certum pondus ei argenti facti legetur an uero argentum factum: si pondus, non contineri, si argentum factum, contineri, quoniam argento cedit, quod ad speciem argenti iunctum est, quemadmodum claui aurei et purpurae pars sunt uestimentorum.
And Pomponius, in the fifth book on Sabinus, distinguishes that it makes a great difference whether a certain weight of wrought silver is bequeathed to him, or indeed the wrought silver itself: if a weight, they are not included; if the wrought silver itself, they are included, since whatever is joined to the silver for its appearance yields to the silver, just as golden bands and purple are part of garments.
idem Pomponius libris epistularum, etsi non sunt claui uestimentis consuti, tamen ueste legata contineri.
The same Pomponius, in his books of Letters, says that even if the bands are not sewn onto the garments, they are nevertheless included when clothing is bequeathed.
§34.2.19.6Idem Celsus libro nono decimo digestorum, commentariorum septimo scribit auro legato ea, quae inaurata sunt, non deberi, nec aurea emblemata, quae in absidibus argenteis sint.
The same Celsus, in the nineteenth book of his Digests and the seventh of his Commentaries, writes that when gold is bequeathed, gilded objects are not owed, nor are golden ornaments which are on silver dishes.
§34.2.19.7An autem auri appellatione anuli aurei contineantur, quaeritur: et Quintus Saturninus libro decimo ad edictum scribit contineri.
Moreover, it is asked whether gold rings are included under the term "gold"; and Quintus Saturninus, in the tenth book on the Edict, writes that they are included.
§34.2.19.8Lectum plane argenteum uel si qua alia supellex argentea fuit, argenti appellatione non continetur, si numero argenti habita non est, ut in iunctura argentea scio me dixisse, quod non in argentario pater familias reponebat.
Clearly, a silver couch, or if there was any other silver furniture, is not included under the term "silver" if it was not kept in the category of silver, as I know I said in connection with silver, regarding what the father of a family did not store in his silver-chest.
sed nec candelabra nec lucernae argenteae uel sigilla, quae in domo reposita sunt, uel imagines argenteae argenti appellatione continebuntur, nec speculum uel parieti adfixum uel etiam quod mulier mundi causa habuit, si modo non in argenti numero habita sunt.
Nor indeed will silver candelabra, or silver lamps, or figurines stored in the house, or silver portraits be included under the term "silver", nor a mirror either fixed to the wall or even one which a woman kept for the purpose of adornment, provided they were not kept in the category of silver.
§34.2.19.9Argento facto legato Quintus Mucius ait uasa argentea contineri, ueluti parapsidas acetabula trullas pelues et his similia, non tamen quae supellectilis sunt.
When wrought silver is bequeathed, Quintus Mucius says that silver vessels are included, such as side-dishes, vinegar-cruets, ladles, basins and the like, but not, however, those which belong to furniture.