his step-mother’s possession. If, moreover, he had given his minor son a slave and then, during his terminal illness, proclaimed that slave’s emancipation, the manumission is executed out of the disposable third of the estate: if the third suffices, the slave is fully freed within it; if not, he is emancipated only in proportion to what the third can cover. The father may also compensate his son for the gift he has taken back with whatever substitute he deems appropriate, for he is the guardian of the child’s interests, and no charge of self-serving bias is attached to him when he sells the child’s property or purchases it from the child for himself. The same latitude does not extend to an agent or a testamentary guardian. Should it become clear that the father’s real purpose in the transaction was to wrongfully appropriate the child’s wealth, the act must be reversed if the son so demands.