[IDEM libro sexto decimo quaestionum. ] §34.9.12.prCum quidam scripsisset heredes quos instituere non potuerat, quamuis institutio non ualeret neque superius testamentum ruptum esset, heredibus tamen ut indignis, qui non habuerunt supremam uoluntatem, abstulit iam pridem senatus hereditatem.
[THE SAME, in the sixteenth book of Questions.] When a certain person had written down as heirs those whom he could not institute, although the institution was not valid and the prior will was not revoked, yet the senate long ago took away the inheritance from the heirs as being unworthy, because they did not have the final intention of the deceased.
quod diuus Marcus in eius persona iudicauit, cuius nomen peracto testamento testator induxerat: causam enim ad praefectos aerarii misit: uerum ab eo legata relicta salua manserunt.
The divine Marcus decided this in the person of one whose name the testator had erased after the will was completed; for he sent the case to the prefects of the treasury; but the legacies left to be paid by him remained secure.
de praeceptionibus eidem datis uoluntatis erit quaestio: et legatum ei non denegabitur, nisi hoc euidenter testatorem uoluisse appareat.
Concerning the prelegacy given to the same person, there will be a question of intention; and the legacy will not be denied to him, unless it clearly appears that the testator wished this.