Fideicommissorum libri
Ex libro III
Pomponius, Trusts, Book III. When the person to whom a slave is left to be liberated under a trust is unwilling, the slave should not be delivered to him in order to be manumitted; but he can become the freedman of another than the one who was requested to emancipate him. 1Campanus says that if a minor of twenty years of age should ask his heir to manumit a slave who belongs to him, his freedom must be granted; because, in this instance, the Lex Ælia Sentia does not apply. 2A slave was bequeathed to Calpurnius Flaccus, who was charged to manumit him, and if he refused, the same slave was bequeathed to Titius, who was also charged to manumit him; and if he should fail to do so, the slave was ordered to be free. Sabinus says that the legacy is void, and that the slave will become free immediately by the terms of the will.