[ABURNIUS UALENS libro sexto fideicommissorum. ] §4.4.33.prSi minor uiginti quinque annis seruum suum, qui pluris, quam in testamento ei legatum sit, manumittere rogatus fuerit et legatum acceperit, non cogendum praestare libertatem, si legatum reddere paratus sit, Iulianus respondit: ut quemadmodum maioribus liberum sit non accipere, si nolint manumittere, sic huic reddenti legatum necessitas manumittendi remittatur.
[ABURNIUS VALENS, in the sixth book on Trusts.] Julian replied that if a minor under twenty-five years of age has been requested to manumit his own slave, who is of greater value than what was bequeathed to him in the will, and has accepted the legacy, he ought not to be compelled to grant freedom, if he is prepared to return the legacy; so that, just as adults are free not to accept if they do not wish to manumit, so to this minor, upon returning the legacy, the necessity of manumitting should be remitted.