before the sale, the child is free.

If a man gives his slave-woman to one person and whatever is in her womb to another, and the one who received the mother then sets her free, her emancipation is suspended until she delivers.

However, if he first donates the unborn child and thereafter emancipates the mother himself, she is freed and the child follows her in freedom, while the gift is void, for possession of the fetus was never taken before the emancipation occurred.