[UALENS libro tertio fideicommissorum. ] §36.1.69.prSi postulante me suspectam hereditatem ex decreto praetoris adieris nec ego postea eam mihi restitui uelim nec bonis me immiscere, hoc fieri debet, ut (quod Octaueno non ineleganter uidebatur) a praetore perinde actiones in me dentur, ac si hereditatem recepissem, quod est iustius.
[VALENS, On Trusts, Book 3] If, upon my request, you have entered upon a suspect inheritance under the decree of the praetor, and I should not afterwards wish it to be restored to me nor to meddle with the assets, this ought to be done, that (as seemed not inelegantly to Octavenus) actions should be granted by the praetor against me in the same manner as if I had received the inheritance, which is more just.
§36.1.69.1Etiam eo tempore, quo creditorum fraudandorum consilium inieris, citra periculum interdicti fraudatorii hereditatem suspectam adibis et restitues mihi, quia et remoto fideicommisso liberum tibi fuerat nolenti adire hereditatem creditores tuos tali commodo fraudare, et ego nihil turpiter faciam recipiendo eam hereditatem, quam remota postulatione mea creditores compellere te ut adires non potuerint.
Even at the time when you have formed the plan of defrauding your creditors, you will enter upon and restore a suspect inheritance to me without danger of an interdict against fraud, because even if the trust is set aside, it would have been free for you, as one unwilling to enter upon the inheritance, to defraud your creditors of such an advantage, and I shall do nothing dishonorably in receiving that inheritance, which, if my request were set aside, the creditors could not have compelled you to enter upon.
§36.1.69.2Sed et filius suus heres patri rogatus sit a patre hereditatem mihi restituere, cum suorum creditorum fraudandorum consilium inisset, tamquam suspectam ex decreto praetoris restituerit mihi, uix fraudatorio interdicto locus erit, quia bonis patris eius uenditis nihil proprium creditores eius ex ea hereditate ferre potuerint: nisi forte proprii creditores filii audiri debeant, si postulent, ut dimissis patris eius bona uendere sibi permittatur.
But if a son who is the immediate heir to his father is requested by his father to restore the inheritance to me, and when he had formed the plan of defrauding his own creditors, restores it to me as suspect under the decree of the praetor, there will scarcely be room for the interdict against fraud, because if his father's goods are sold, his creditors could have carried away nothing of their own from that inheritance; unless perchance the son's own creditors ought to be heard, if they request that, after the father's creditors have been dismissed, they be permitted to sell the goods.
§36.1.69.3Si donationis causa suspectam hereditatem sibi heres dixerit et restituerit ei, qui solidum capere non possit, auferetur ei id quod capere non potest.
If, for the sake of a gift, the heir has declared the inheritance to be suspect to himself and has restored it to one who cannot take the whole, that which he cannot take shall be taken away from him.
idem dicendum est et si citra consilium donandi fiduciarius heres id fecerit.
The same must be said even if the fiduciary heir has done this without the intention of making a gift.