[De communione et conversatione Iudaeorum et Christianorum]

in his liberty is to be sold to all. But those whom it is fitting to lose their servants of this kind, lest perhaps they reasonably complain that their utilities are impeded, it befits us to observe with solicitous consideration: that if they bought pagans for the sake of commerce from foreign borders, within three months—while the buyer to whom he was sold is not found to have fled to the Church, and it happens that he says he wishes to become a Christian—or even outside the Church they have declared such a will, let them take the price there from the Christian buyer. But if beyond the set three months, anyone of such servants of the Jews says that it is his will, and he wishes to become a Christian, and no one buys him afterward, and the master, on the pretext of any occasion, dares to sell him; he shall be led to liberty without doubt, because he has not bought him to sell, but to serve him. If the second, namely if the servant is bought: this is twofold. Either he was already a Christian when he was bought, or a pagan. If a Christian, then he is snatched into liberty indiscriminately with no price given, by authority, because the commerce of Christians is forbidden to the Jew entirely. Mancipia Servants. Similarly, the servants of heretics can leave their masters with impunity and take refuge at the Church. But if he is bought while he was a pagan: either he was bought for the sake of service, or for the sake of commerce. If the first, he wishes to become a Christian, he is made free without price, as the text says above in the chapter "Fraternitatem." If the second, namely for the sake of commerce, either he was bought for selling and he did not expose him for sale within three months, and he did not stand by him so that he could not sell, and he himself wishes to become a Christian within that time or even beyond, he shall be freed by giving the price of 12 solidi gold coins by any Christian, as in the chapter "Fraternitatem," and in Extra de Iudaeis, chapter 1, where it is said: We sanction by this present council that no Christian servant serve a Jew, but by giving 12 solidi for every good servant, whoever of the Christians may have the license to redeem him, whether for manumission or for service. And if he desires to become a Christian and is not permitted, the same shall be done, because it is an impiety that he whom Christ redeems be held in the chains of servitude to a blasphemer of Christ. Thus also Gregory the Pope says in the chapter "No," ibid., namely of many, that it is permitted to no Jew to retain a Christian servant in his dominion.