[ULPIANUS libro nono decimo ad edictum. ] §10.2.8.prPomponius scribit, si uni ex heredibus praelegatae fuerint rationes, non prius ei tradendas, quam coheredes descripserint.
[ULPIANUS, On the Edict, book 19] Pomponius writes that if accounts are pre-bequeathed to one of the heirs, they must not be delivered to him before the coheirs have copied them.
nam et si seruus actor, inquit, fuerit legatus, non alias eum tradendum, quam rationes reddiderit.
For he says that even if a slave accountant is bequeathed, he must not be delivered otherwise than when he has rendered accounts.
nos uidebimus, numquid et cautio sit interponenda, ut, quotiens desideratae fuerint rationes uel actor praelegatus, copia eorum fiat? plerumque enim authenticae rationes sunt necessariae actori ad instruenda ea, quae postea emergunt ad notitiam eius spectantia.
We shall see whether security must also be provided so that, whenever the accounts or the pre-bequeathed accountant are required, access to them may be provided. For generally original accounts are necessary for the accountant to prepare those matters which subsequently arise concerning his department.
et necessarium est cautionem ab eo super hoc coheredibus praestari.
And it is necessary that security be furnished by him to the coheirs concerning this.
§10.2.8.1Idem Pomponius ait columbas, quae emitti solent de columbario, uenire in familiae herciscundae iudicium, cum nostrae sint tamdiu, quamdiu consuetudinem habeant ad nos reuertendi: quare si quis eas adpraehendisset, furti nobis competit actio.
The same Pomponius says that doves which are accustomed to be let fly from a dovecote come into the action for the division of an inheritance, since they are ours as long as they have the habit of returning to us; wherefore if anyone should capture them, the action for theft is available to us.
idem et in apibus dicitur, quia in patrimonio nostro computantur.
The same is said also in the case of bees, because they are reckoned in our patrimony.
§10.2.8.2Sed et si quid de pecoribus nostris a bestia ereptum sit, uenire in familiae erciscundae iudicium putat, si feram euaserit: nam magis esse, ut non desinat nostrum esse, inquit, quod a lupo eripitur uel alia bestia, tamdiu, quamdiu ab eo non fuerit consumptum.
But he also thinks that if anything from our cattle has been snatched by a beast, it comes into the action for the division of an inheritance if it should escape the wild beast; for he says that the better view is that what is snatched by a wolf or another beast does not cease to be ours as long as it has not been consumed by it.