[IDEM libro uicensimo octauo quaestionum. ] §50.17.77.prActus legitimi, qui non recipiunt diem uel condicionem, ueluti emancipatio, acceptilatio, hereditatis aditio, serui optio, datio tutoris, in totum uitiantur per temporis uel condicionis adiectionem.
[THE SAME, from his twenty-eighth book of Questions.] Legal acts which do not admit of a time limit or a condition, such as emancipation, release by acceptilatio, entry on an inheritance, the option of a slave, or the appointment of a guardian, are entirely vitiated by the addition of a time limit or a condition.
nonnumquam tamen actus supra scripti tacite recipiunt, quae aperte comprehensa uitium adferunt.
Nevertheless, the above-mentioned acts sometimes tacitly admit what, if openly expressed, would bring about a defect.
nam si acceptum feratur ei, qui sub condicione promisit, ita demum egisse aliquid acceptilatio intellegitur, si obligationis condicio exstiterit: quae si uerbis nominatim acceptilationis comprehendatur, nullius momenti faciet actum.
For if a release is granted to one who has promised under a condition, the release is understood to have some effect only if the condition of the obligation has been fulfilled; but if this condition is expressly included in the words of the release, it will render the act of no effect.