[SCAEUOLA libro uicensimo tertio digestorum. ] §40.5.18.prTestamento ita cauit: 'Pamphilus, si bene se gesserit rationibus meis, liber esto': quaesitum est, cum manente eodem testamento post aliquot annos decesserit nec ullae querellae locus de Pamphilo circa rationes patroni sit, an ex testamento libertatem sit consecutus.
[SCAEVOLA, from the twenty-third book of the Digests.] He made a provision in his will as follows: 'Let Pamphilus be free, if he shall have conducted himself well with respect to my accounts': the question was asked, whether, since the testator died some years later with the same will remaining in force, and there is no room for any complaint concerning Pamphilus regarding his patron's accounts, he obtained his freedom under the will.
respondit nihil proponi, cur non sit consecutus.
He replied that no reason was presented why he should not have obtained it.