Digestorum libri
Ex libro LXXXI
Ad Dig. 30,102Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. III, § 647, Note 14.The Same, Digest, Book LXXXI. Where a minor of twenty years manumits his slave without the required legal investigation, and afterwards bequeaths a legacy to said slave, and the latter, having been sold, obtains his liberty; he cannot receive the legacy, for it is of no force or effect as it was bequeathed without the grant of freedom.
The Same, Digest, Book LXXXI. If a creditor should make a bequest to a debtor of what he owes him, and the former can protect himself by a perpetual exception, the legacy will be of no force or effect. If, however, the same debtor should make a bequest to his creditor of what he owes him, he will be understood to have intended that his creditor shall be released from the operation of the aforesaid exception.
The Same, Digest, Book LXXXI. According to a just interpretation it should be understood, as we have often said, that as a daughter under paternal control is included under the term “son,” a grandson should likewise be included; and a grandfather also be understood to be designated by the term “father.”