[IDEM libro tertio ad Sabinum. ]
[THE SAME from the third book on Sabinus.]\n\nFor even if someone is instituted as heir under a condition, by whom a posthumous child has not been disinherited, nevertheless, while the condition is pending, the degree is ruptured, as Julian also wrote.
§28.3.5.prNam et si sub condicione sit heres institutus quis, a quo postumus non est exheredatus, tamen pendente condicione rumpitur gradus, ut et Iulianus scripsit: sed et si sit ei substitutus quis, etiam deficiente condicione primi gradus non admittetur substitutus, a quo scilicet postumus exheredatus non est.
But even if someone has been substituted for him, the substitute will not be admitted even if the condition of the first degree fails, provided, of course, that the posthumous child has not been disinherited by him.
puto igitur existente quidem condicione primi gradus postumo potius locum fore: post defectum autem condicionis natus postumus gradum non rumpit, quia nullus est.
I think, therefore, that if the condition of the first degree is indeed fulfilled, there will rather be a place for the posthumous child; but a posthumous child born after the failure of the condition does not rupture the degree, because there is none.
rumpendo autem testamentum sibi locum facere postumus solet, quamuis filius sequentem gradum, a quo exheredatus est, patiatur ualere.
Moreover, a posthumous child is accustomed to make a place for himself by rupturing the testament, although a son may allow the subsequent degree, from which he has been disinherited, to be valid.
sed si a primo gradu praeteritus, a secundo exheredatus sit, si eo tempore nascatur postumus, quo aliquis ex institutis uixit, totum testamentum ruptum est: nam tollendo primum gradum, sibi locum faciet.
But if he has been passed over by the first degree and disinherited by the second, if the posthumous child is born at that time when any of those instituted was alive, the entire testament is ruptured; for by destroying the first degree, he will make a place for himself.