[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo ad edictum. ] §40.12.23.prSi usum fructum tibi uendidero liberi hominis et cessero, seruum effici eum dicebat Quintus Mucius, sed dominium ita demum fieri meum, si bona fide uendidissem, alioquin sine domino fore.
[PAULUS on the Edict, book fifty.] If I sell and transfer to you the usufruct of a free man, Quintus Mucius used to say that he becomes a slave, but that ownership becomes mine only if I had sold in good faith; otherwise, he would be without an owner.
§40.12.23.1In summa sciendum est, quae de uenditis seruis, quibus denegatur ad libertatem proclamatio, dicta sunt, etiam ad donatos et in dotem datos referri posse, item ad eos, qui pignori se dari passi sunt.
In short, it should be known that what has been said concerning sold slaves to whom the claim for freedom is denied can also be applied to those who have been gifted or given as dowry, and likewise to those who have allowed themselves to be given as a pledge.
§40.12.23.2Si mater et filius de libertate litigant, aut coniungenda sunt utrorumque iudicia aut differenda est causa filii, donec de matre constet, sicut diuus quoque Hadrianus decreuit.
If a mother and a son are litigating concerning their freedom, either the trials of both must be joined, or the case of the son must be postponed until the status of the mother is established, just as the divine Hadrian also decreed.
nam cum apud alium iudicem mater litigabat, apud alium autem filius, Augustus dixit ante de matre constare oportere, sic dein de filio cognosci.
For when the mother was litigating before one judge and the son before another, Augustus said that it ought first to be established concerning the mother, and so thereafter the case of the son should be heard.