[IULIANUS libro trigesimo nono digestorum. ] §30.1.96.prQuidam testamento uel codicillis ita legauit: 'Aureos quadringentos Pamphilae dari uolo ita ut infra scriptum est: ab Iulio actore aureos tot et in castris quos habeo tot et in numerato quos habeo tot': post multos annos eadem uoluntate manente decessit, cum omnes summae in alios usus translatae essent: quaero, an debeatur fideicommissum.
[IULIANUS libro trigesimo nono digestorum.] A certain person bequeathed in a testament or codicil as follows: "I wish four hundred aurei to be given to Pamphila just as written below: so many aurei from my agent Iulius, so many which I have in camp, and so many which I have in cash." After many years, while the same intention remained, he died, although all the sums had been transferred to other uses. I ask whether the trust is due.
respondi: uero similius est patrem familias demonstrare potius heredibus uoluisse, unde aureos quadringentos sine incommodo rei familiaris contrahere possint, quam condicionem fideicommisso iniecisse, quod initio pure datum esset, et ideo quadringenti Pamphilae debebuntur.
I answered: it is more probable that the father of the family wished to point out to the heirs from where they could obtain the four hundred aurei without detriment to the family estate, rather than to have imposed a condition on the trust, which initially had been given unconditionally, and therefore the four hundred aurei will be due to Pamphila.
§30.1.96.1Quotiens lege Iulia bona uacantia ad fiscum pertinent, et legata et fideicommissa praestantur, quae praestare cogeretur heres a quo relicta erant.
Whenever vacant property falls to the treasury under the Lex Iulia, both legacies and trusts are paid which the heir from whom they were left would be compelled to pay.
§30.1.96.2Si tibi seruus legatus fuerit et petitum a te, ut Titio aliquid praestares usque ad pretium serui, deinde seruus decesserit, nihil fideicommissi nomine praestare cogendus eris.
If a slave is bequeathed to you and you are asked to pay something to Titius up to the value of the slave, and then the slave dies, you will not be compelled to pay anything under the name of a trust.
§30.1.96.3Si scriptus ex parte heres rogatus sit praecipere pecuniam et eis quibus testamento legatum erat distribuere, id quod sub condicione legatum est tunc praecipere debebit, cum condicio exstiterit: interim aut ei aut his quibus legatum est satisdari oportet.
If an heir designated for a share is asked to take money in advance and distribute it to those to whom it was bequeathed in the testament, he must take in advance what was bequeathed under a condition when the condition occurs; in the meantime, security ought to be given either to him or to those to whom it was bequeathed.
§30.1.96.4Cui statuliber pecuniam dare iussus est, is rogari potest, ut eandem pecuniam alicui restituat: nam cum possit testator codicillis pure libertatem dare et hoc modo condicionem exstinguere, cur non etiam per fideicommissum eandem pecuniam adimendi potestatem habeat?
He who is ordered to be given money by a statuliber can be asked to restore that same money to someone else; for since the testator can give freedom unconditionally in a codicil and in this way extinguish the condition, why should he not also have the power to take away the same money through a trust?