[IULIANUS libro trigensimo sexto digestorum. ] §37.5.17.prSi emancipato filio praeterito pater extraneum heredem instituisset et ab eo rem legasset eaque adita hereditate dolo scripti heredis perisset, aduersus emancipatum utilis actio dari debebit ei scilicet personae, cui filius legata praestare cogitur, quia praetori propositum est sine iniuria ceterarum personarum bonorum possessionem contra tabulas testamenti dari.
[JULIANUS book thirty-six of the digests.] If, an emancipated son having been omitted, the father had appointed an outside heir and had bequeathed a thing from him, and that thing, after the inheritance was entered upon, had perished by the fraud of the appointed heir, an analogous action (utilis actio) ought to be granted against the emancipated son, namely to that person to whom the son is compelled to pay legacies; for the praetor's purpose is that the possession of goods contrary to the tablets of the will be given without prejudice to other persons.