[IDEM libro septuagensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §39.5.19.prHoc iure utimur, ut in rebus publicis, cum de donatione quaeritur, illud solum spectetur, utrum ob causam aliquam iustam rei publicae promittat quis uel polliceatur an non, ut, si ob honorem aliquem promittat, teneatur, si minus, non.
[THE SAME, in the seventy-sixth book on the Edict.] We observe this rule of law, that in the case of public bodies, when a question arises concerning a donation, only this is considered, whether someone promises or makes a unilateral promise to the public body for some just cause or not, so that, if he promises on account of some honor, he is bound; if not, he is not.
§39.5.19.1Labeo scribit extra causam donationum esse talium officiorum mercedes ut puta: si tibi adfuero, si satis pro te dedero, si qualibet in re opera uel gratia mea usus fueris.
Labeo writes that payments for such services are outside the scope of donations, as for instance: if I assist you in court, if I provide security on your behalf, or if you have made use of my labor or influence in any matter.
§39.5.19.2Non potest liberalitas nolenti adquiri.
A benefit cannot be acquired by one who is unwilling.
§39.5.19.3Si quis dederit pecuniam mutuam Titio reddendam Seio, cui donatum uolebat, deinde Titius mortuo donatore Seio dedisse proponatur, erit consequens dicere pecuniam Seii fieri, siue mortuum sciuit siue ignorauit is qui dabat, quia pecunia fuit dantis: sed si quidem ignorauit mortuum, erit liberatus, si sic mutuam pecuniam accepit soluendam Seio.
If someone has given money as a loan to Titius to be paid to Seius, to whom he wished to make a donation, and then, after the death of the donor, Titius is supposed to have given it to Seius, it will be logical to say that the money becomes Seius's property, whether he who gave it knew of the death or was ignorant of it, because the money belonged to the giver; but if indeed he was ignorant of the death, he will be released, if he received the loan on the condition that it should be paid to Seius.
si autem mandauero tibi, ut pecuniam Titio des, cui donare uolebam, et tu ignorans me mortuum hoc feceris, habebis aduersus heredes meos mandati actionem: si sciens, non habebis.
If, however, I have mandated you to give money to Titius, to whom I wished to make a donation, and you, being ignorant of my death, have done this, you will have an action of mandate against my heirs; if you did so knowing of it, you will not.
§39.5.19.4Si quis seruo pecuniam crediderit, deinde is liber factus eam expromiserit, non erit donatio, sed debiti solutio.
If someone has lent money to a slave, and then, after being set free, the latter has promised to pay it, this will not be a donation, but the discharge of a debt.
idem in pupillo, qui sine tutoris auctoritate debuerit, dicendum est, si postea tutore auctore promittat.
The same must be said of a ward who became indebted without the authority of his tutor, if he subsequently makes a promise with the authority of his tutor.
§39.5.19.5Sed et hae stipulationes, quae ob causam fiunt, non habent donationem.
But also those stipulations which are made for a cause do not contain a donation.
§39.5.19.6Denique Pegasus putabat, si tibi centum spopondero hac condicione, si iurasses te nomen meum laturum, non esse donationem, quia ob rem facta est, res secuta est.
Finally, Pegasus thought that if I have promised you a hundred on this condition, that you swear to bear my name, this is not a donation, because it was made for a consideration, and the consideration has followed.