[IDEM libro trigesimo septimo digestorum. ] §31.0.30.prQuidam in testamento ita scripsit: 'rei publicae Grauiscanorum lego in tutelam uiac reficiendae, quae est in colonia eorum usque ad uiam Aureliam': quaesitum est, an hoc legatum ualeat.
[IDEM libro trigesimo septimo digestorum.] A certain person wrote as follows in his will: "I bequeath to the municipality of the Graviscans for the maintenance of repairing the road which is in their colony as far as the Aurelian Way." The question arose whether this legacy is valid.
Iuuentius Celsus respondit: propemodum quidem inperfecta est haec scriptura in tutelam Aureliae uiae, quia summa adscripta non est: potest tamen uideri tanta summa legata, quanta ei rei sufficeret: si modo non apparet aliam fuisse defuncti uoluntatem aut ex magnitudine eius pecuniae aut ex mediocritate facultatium, quam testatrix reliquit: tunc enim officio iudicis secundum aestimationem patrimonii et legati quantitas definiri potest.
Iuventius Celsus replied: this writing "for the maintenance of the Aurelian Way" is indeed virtually incomplete, because the sum has not been specified; nevertheless, it can be deemed that a sum as great as would suffice for that purpose was bequeathed, provided it does not appear that the intention of the deceased was otherwise, either from the magnitude of that money or from the smallness of the resources which the testatrix left; for in that case, the quantity of the legacy can be determined by the office of the judge according to the estimation of the patrimony.