[IULIANUS libro septuagesimo octauo digestorum. ] §28.6.30.prQuidam testamento Proculum ex parte quarta et Quietum ex parte dimidia et quarta heredem instituit, deinde Quieto Florum, Proculo Sosiam heredes substituit, deinde, si neque Florus neque Sosia heredes essent, tertio gradu ex parte dimidia et quarta coloniam Leptitanorum et ex quarta complures heredes substituit in plures quam tres uncias: Quietus hereditatem adiit, Proculus et Sosia uiuo testatore decesserunt: quaeritur, quadrans Proculo datus ad Quietum an ad substitutos tertio gradu pertineat.
[JULIANUS, Book 78 of Digest.] A certain person by his will instituted Proculus as heir to a fourth part, and Quietus to a half and a fourth part; then he substituted Florus to Quietus, and Sosia to Proculus; then, if neither Florus nor Sosia should be heirs, he substituted in the third degree the colony of the Leptitans to a half and a fourth part, and several heirs to a fourth part in more than three ounces. Quietus entered upon the inheritance; Proculus and Sosia died during the lifetime of the testator. The question is whether the fourth part given to Proculus belongs to Quietus or to the substitutes in the third degree.
respondi eam uideri uoluntatem patris familias fuisse, ut tertio gradu scriptos heredes ita demum substituerit, si tota hereditas uacasset, idque apparere euidenter ex eo, quod plures quam duodecim uncias inter eos distribuisset, et idcirco partem quartam hereditatis de qua quaeritur ad Quietum pertinere.
I answered that the intention of the father of the family seemed to have been to substitute the heirs written in the third degree only if the entire inheritance had become vacant; and that this clearly appeared from the fact that he had distributed more than twelve ounces among them, and therefore that the fourth part of the inheritance in question belongs to Quietus.