[MARCELLUS libro singulari responsorum. ] §40.5.56.prLucius Titius testamento ita cauit: 'si quos codicillos reliquero, ualere uolo.
[MARCELLUS in his single book of Responses.] Lucius Titius provided as follows in his will: 'If I leave any codicils, I wish them to be valid.
si quis mihi ex Paula, quae uxor mea fuit, 'intra decem menses natus nataue erit, ex semisse heredes sunto.
If any son or daughter is born to me within ten months from Paula, who was my wife, let them be heirs to one-half.
Gaius Seius ex semisse 'heres esto.
Let Gaius Seius be heir to one-half.
Stichum et Pamphilum seruos meos et Erotem et Diphilum peto et fidei he'redum committo, ut, cum ad pubertatem liberi mei peruenerint, manumittant'. deinde nouissima parte ita cauit: 'quod si mihi liberi nati non erunt aut intra pubertatem deces'serint, tunc heredes ex paribus partibus sunto Mucius et Maenius.
As for my slaves Stichus and Pamphilus, and Eros and Diphilus, I request and commit to the trust of my heirs, that they manumit them when my children have reached puberty.' Then, in the very last part, he provided as follows: 'But if children are not born to me, or if they die before puberty, then let Mucius and Maenius be heirs in equal shares.
legata, quae priore 'testamento, quo filios et Seium reliqui, praestari uolo, hoc est et a sequentibus here'dibus'. deinde codicillis ita cauit: 'Lucius Titius heredibus primis et substitutis salutem.
I wish the legacies that I bequeathed in the prior will, in which I left my children and Seius, to be performed, that is, also by the subsequent heirs.' Afterwards, he provided as follows in a codicil: 'Lucius Titius sends greetings to his first and substitute heirs.
'peto, ut ea quae testamento caui legaui et ea quae codicillis cauero legauero, praestetis'. quaero, cum liberi Lucio Titio nati non sint, an Sticho et Pamphilo et Eroti et Diphilo seruis confestim fideicommissa libertas praestari debeat.
I request that you perform those things which I provided and bequeathed in my will, and those things which I shall provide and bequeath in codicils.' I ask, since no children were born to Lucius Titius, whether the fideicommissary freedom ought to be granted immediately to the slaves Stichus, Pamphilus, Eros, and Diphilus.
Marcellus respondit condicionem, quae libertati eorum, de quibus quaereretur, si filii heredes exstitissent, adposita esset, repetitam non uideri ideoque confestim libertatem praestandam esse et a primis et a substitutis heredibus: nam ut supra scriptum est, petit, ut quae testamento cauisset praestarentur, cauit autem de libertate eorum seruorum.
Marcellus replied that the condition which had been attached to the freedom of those in question, in the event that children should have emerged as heirs, does not appear to have been repeated, and therefore freedom must be granted immediately both by the first and by the substitute heirs. For, as written above, he requests that what he had provided in his will be performed, and he did provide concerning the freedom of those slaves.
atquin sub condicione cauit et, si alterius generis condicio esset, exspectanda esset: sed non est uerisimile, ut hoc in ista condicione cogitauerit, cum fidei substitutorum committeret, qui admitti ad hereditatem non possent, si impleretur condicio.
Yet indeed he did provide under a condition, and if it were a condition of another kind, it would have to be waited for; but it is not likely that he thought of this in the case of that condition, since he was committing to the trust of substitute heirs, who could not be admitted to the inheritance if the condition were fulfilled.