Celsus, Digest, Book IX. It is not proper without taking into consideration an entire law either to decide, or give an opinion upon any particular portion of the same.

The Same, Digest, Book IX. Whatever a husband gives to his wife still remains his property, and he can recover it, nor does it make any difference if he has been left large bequests by his wife.

Celsus, Digest, Book IX. Where a chorus, or a body of slaves were bequeathed, it is just the same as if the individuals composing them had been separately bequeathed. 1Proculus says that, by the words: “I give and bequeath all movable property which is found there,” money which is deposited in that place for the purpose of being loaned is not bequeathed, but that such as has been left there to render it secure (as certain persons were accustomed to do during the Civil Wars), will be included in the legacy; and he relates that he has heard old men in the country say that money without peculium is very easily lost, meaning by the term peculium what is put aside for safe-keeping. 2Ad Dig. 32,79,2Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. III, § 654, Note 4.Where a plot of land not built upon is devised, and, in the meantime, a house is erected upon it, and the house having bean demolished, the land again becomes vacant, the legatee will be entitled to it, although he could not have claimed it while the house stood there. 3Where a slave is bequeathed, and then, after having been manumitted, is again reduced to slavery, he can be claimed by the legatee.