[ULPIANUS libro secundo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §29.2.79.prPlacet, quotiens adquiritur per aliquem hereditas uel quid aliud ei cuius quis in potestate est, confestim adquiri ei cuius est in potestate, neque momento aliquo subsistere in persona eius per quem adquiritur et sic adquiri ei cui adquiritur.
[ULPIANUS, from the second book On the Lex Julia et Papia.] It is held that, whenever an inheritance or anything else is acquired through someone for a person under whose power that someone is, it is acquired immediately for the one under whose power he is, and does not remain for even a moment in the person of him through whom it is acquired, and is thus acquired for the one for whom it is acquired.