[IDEM libro trigensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §49.17.6.prSi militi filio familias uxor seruum manumittendi causa donauerit, an suum libertum fecerit, uideamus, quia peculiares et seruos et libertos potuit habere.
[THE SAME in the thirty-second book on Sabinus.] If a wife should donate a slave to a soldier who is a son of a household for the purpose of manumission, let us see whether he makes him his own freedman, since he could have both slaves and freedmen as part of his peculium.
et magis est, ut hoc castrensi peculio non adnumeretur, quia uxor ei non propter militiam nota esset.
And it is more correct that this should not be reckoned as part of his military peculium (castrense peculium), because his wife would not have been known to him on account of military service.
plane si mihi proponas ad castra eunti marito uxorem seruos donasse, ut manumittat et habiles ad militiam libertos habeat, potest dici sua uoluntate sine patris permissu manumittentem ad libertatem perducere.
Clearly, if you were to propose to me that a wife donated slaves to her husband as he was going to the camp, so that he might manumit them and have freedmen fit for military service, it can be said that he, by manumitting them of his own will without his father's permission, brings them to freedom.