[IDEM libro quinquagensimo quarto digestorum. ] §44.7.18.prSi is, qui Stichum dari stipulatus fuerat, heres exstiterit ei, cui ex testamento idem Stichus debebatur: si ex testamento Stichum petierit, non consumet stipulationem, et contra si ex stipulatu Stichum petierit, actionem ex testamento saluam habebit, quia initio ita constiterint hae duae obligationes, ut altera in iudicium deducta altera nihilo minus integra remaneret.
[THE SAME, from the fifty-fourth book of Digests.] If a person who had stipulated for Stichus to be given to him becomes the heir to someone by whom the same Stichus was owed under a will: if he sues for Stichus under the will, he does not consume the stipulation; and conversely, if he sues for Stichus under the stipulation, he will keep the action under the will intact, because at the beginning these two obligations were established in such a way that, even if one of them were brought to trial, the other would nevertheless remain unimpaired.