[PAULUS libro tertio fideicommissorum. ] §35.2.36.prSed si non seruus ipse legatus sit, sed pecunia rogatusque sit legatarius seruum suum manumittere, Falcidiam patietur et nihilo minus cogetur manumittere, quia tanti aestimasse uidebitur seruum suum.
[PAULUS in the third book of his Epitome of Trusts.] But if the slave himself is not bequeathed, but money is, and the legatee is requested to manumit his own slave, he will bear the Lex Falcidia and will nonetheless be compelled to manumit him, because he will be deemed to have valued his own slave at that amount.
§35.2.36.1Quid si alienus seruus fuerit? in eo non plus quam accepit ad redimendum cogitur impendere.
What if it was someone else's slave? In that case, he is not compelled to spend more than he received to buy him out.
§35.2.36.2Sin uero heres seruum rogatus sit manumittere, placet pretium eius, ut aes alienum, deducendum esse.
But if the heir is requested to manumit a slave, it is held that his price, like a debt, is to be deducted.
§35.2.36.3Si solus seruus legatus et fideicommissa libertate donatus fuerit, licet Falcidia interueniente totus uindicari petiue potest.
If only a slave is bequeathed and gifted with freedom by trust-bequest, although the Lex Falcidia intervenes, he can be claimed as a whole by real or personal action.
sed et si aliud praeterea capiat legatarius, adhuc seruus totus peti potest: quartam autem utriusque ex legato retinendam, ne impediatur libertas.
But even if the legatee receives something else in addition, the slave can still be claimed as a whole: but a fourth of both from the bequest is to be retained so that freedom is not impeded.
§35.2.36.4Si incertum sit, an libertas praestari debeat, ueluti quod sub condicione uel post tempus data sit, numquid incerto eo an praestetur, cum possit aut seruus mori aut condicio deficere, interim Falcidia admittenda est, deinde cum libertas competere uel deberi coeperit, tum legatarius illam partem recipiat, quam Falcidia detraxit? Caecilio placebat, si quid ex operis eius medio tempore consecutus fuerit heres, id in pretium eius erogare eum debere propter legis Falcidiae rationem.
If it is uncertain whether freedom ought to be provided, for instance, because it was given under a condition or after a period of time, then while it is uncertain whether it will be provided (since either the slave might die or the condition fail), should the Lex Falcidia be admitted in the meantime, and then, when the freedom begins to apply or be due, should the legatee receive back that part which the Lex Falcidia deducted? Caecilius held that if the heir obtained any benefit from the slave's services in the intervening period, he ought to expend it on the price of the slave for the sake of the calculation of the Lex Falcidia.