[IDEM libro sexagensimo digestorum. ] §39.5.2.prSi, cum filius familias pecuniam donare uellet, patris iussu eam promisit, ualet donatio, perinde ac si fideiussorem dedisset.
[IDEM libro sexagensimo digestorum.] If, when a filius familias wanted to donate money, he promised it by order of his father, the donation is valid, just as if he had given a guarantor.
§39.5.2.1Si uero pater donaturus Titio pecuniam iusserit filium suum eam promittere, poterit dici interesse, debitor filius patri suo fuerit nec ne: nam si tantumdem filius patri debuit, quantum promisit, ualere donatio intellegitur, perinde ac si quemlibet alium debitorem pater iussisset pecuniam promittere.
If, however, a father who was going to donate money to Titius ordered his son to promise it, it can be said to make a difference whether or not the son was a debtor to his father: for if the son owed his father just as much as he promised, the donation is understood to be valid, just as if the father had ordered any other debtor to promise the money.
§39.5.2.2Cum uero ego Titio pecuniam donaturus te, qui mihi tantundem donare uolebas, iussero Titio promittere, inter omnes personas donatio perfecta est.
But when I, intending to donate money to Titius, order you, who wanted to donate just as much to me, to promise it to Titius, the donation is perfected among all parties.
§39.5.2.3Aliud iuris erit, si pecuniam, quam me tibi debere existimabam, iussu tuo spoponderim ei cui donare uolebas: exceptione enim doli mali tueri me potero et praeterea incerti condictione stipulatorem compellam, ut mihi acceptum faciat stipulationem.
A different rule of law will apply if, by your order, I have promised to the person to whom you wanted to make a donation the money which I believed I owed to you: for I will be able to protect myself by the exception of fraud, and furthermore, by a condictio for an uncertain thing, I will compel the stipulator to release me from the stipulation.
§39.5.2.4Item si ei, quem creditorem tuum putabas, iussu tuo pecuniam, quam me tibi debere existimabam, promisero, petentem doli mali exceptione summouebo et amplius incerti agendo cum stipulatore consequar, ut mihi acceptum faciat stipulationem.
Likewise, if, by your order, I promise to the person whom you thought to be your creditor the money which I believed I owed to you, I will bar the claimant by the exception of fraud, and moreover, by suing for an uncertain thing against the stipulator, I will obtain that he release me from the stipulation.
§39.5.2.5Si pecuniam mihi Titius dederit absque ulla stipulatione, ea tamen condicione, ut tunc demum mea fieret, cum Seius consul factus esset: siue furente eo siue mortuo Seius consulatum adeptus fuerit, mea fiet.
If Titius gave me money without any stipulation, but on the condition that it should only become mine when Seius became consul: whether Seius obtained the consulship while Titius was insane or after he was dead, it will become mine.
§39.5.2.6Sed si quis donaturus mihi pecuniam dederit alicui, ut ad me perferret, et ante mortuus erit quam ad me perferat, non fieri pecuniam dominii mei constat.
But if someone intending to donate to me gave money to someone to bring to me, and died before he brought it to me, it is well established that the money does not become of my ownership.
§39.5.2.7Titio decem donaui ea condicione, ut inde Stichum sibi emeret: quaero, cum homo antequam emeretur mortuus sit, an aliqua actione decem recipiam.
I donated ten to Titius on the condition that he should buy Stichus for himself with it: I ask, when the slave died before he was bought, whether I can recover the ten by any action.
respondit: facti magis quam iuris quaestio est: nam si decem Titio in hoc dedi, ut Stichum emeret, aliter non daturus, mortuo Sticho condictione repetam: si uero alias quoque donaturus Titio decem, quia interim Stichum emere proposuerat, dixerim in hoc me dare, ut Stichum emeret, causa magis donationis, quam condicio dandae pecuniae existimari debebit et mortuo Sticho pecunia apud Titium remanebit.
He answered: it is a question of fact rather than of law: for if I gave the ten to Titius for this purpose, that he should buy Stichus, not being about to give it otherwise, I will reclaim it by condictio after the death of Stichus: but if I, who would have donated ten to Titius anyway, because in the meantime he had proposed to buy Stichus, had said that I gave it for this purpose, that he should buy Stichus, it ought to be regarded as the motive of the donation rather than a condition of giving the money, and upon the death of Stichus the money will remain with Titius.