[IDEM libro trigesimo nono digestorum. ] §34.3.12.prLucius Titius cum Erotem actorem haberet, codicillis ita cauit: 'Erotem liberum esse uolo: quem rationes reddere uolo eius temporis, quod erit post nouissimam meam subscriptionem'. postea uiuus Erotem manu- misit in eodem actu habuit rationesque subscripsit usque in eum diem, qui fuit ante paucissimos dies quam moreretur.
[The same, in the thirty-ninth book of the Digests.] When Lucius Titius had Eros as his manager, he provided as follows in his codicil: "I wish Eros to be free; and I wish him to render accounts for that period which shall be after my most recent signature." Afterwards, during his lifetime, he manumitted Eros, kept him in the same employment, and signed the accounts right up to the day which was a very few days before he died.
heredes Lucii Titii dicunt quasdam summas et seruum adhuc Erotem et postea liberum accepisse ne|que in eas rationes, quae a Lucio Titio subscriptae sunt, intulisse: quaero, an heredes ab Erote nihil exigere debent eius temporis, quo Lucius Titius subscripsit.
The heirs of Lucius Titius say that Eros received certain sums of money both while he was still a slave and afterwards when he was free, and did not enter them into those accounts which were signed by Lucius Titius. I ask whether the heirs ought to demand nothing from Eros for the period in which Lucius Titius signed.
respondi Erotem ex ea causa quae proponeretur liberationem petere non posse, nisi et hoc specialiter ei remissum est.
I answered that, under the case proposed, Eros cannot seek release, unless this too was specifically remitted to him.