Digestorum libri
Ex libro XXII
Celsus, Digest, Book XXII. “Let him be liberated whom I may tell my heir I desire shall be given his freedom, and let my heir be charged to give such-and-such a sum to him whom I shall designate.” The wishes of the testator should be carried out, if the identity of the slave whom he had in his mind can be established in any way.
Celsus, Digest, Book XXII. “Let Stichus be free if he pays a hundred aurei in five years.” The slave, after the five years have elapsed, can pay the said amount to the heir of the purchaser. 1Where the slave was ordered to be free if he rendered his accounts, and the heir, after the property belonging to the peculium has been sold, does not permit the slave to pay over the balance in his hands, he will be free just as if he had complied with the condition.