[PAPINIANUS libro tertio decimo responsorum. ] §44.3.10.prIntra quattuor annos uacantium bonorum delator facta denuntiatione destitit: post quattuor annos secundo delatori uenienti prior nuntiatio, quo minus praescriptione temporis summoueatur, non proderit, nisi prioris praeuaricatio detegetur: quo declarato praescriptio, sed et negotii quaestio peremetur.
[PAPINIANUS, Opinions, book thirteen] If, within four years, an informer of vacant property desists after having made a report, the prior report will not benefit a second informer coming after four years, to prevent him from being barred by the prescription of time, unless the collusion of the prior informer is detected; once this is disclosed, the prescription, and indeed the inquiry into the matter, will be extinguished.
§44.3.10.1Quadriennii tempus, quod bonis uacantibus nuntiandis praescriptum est, non ex opinione hominum, sed de substantia uacantium bonorum dinumeratur.
The four-year period prescribed for reporting vacant property is calculated not from the subjective belief of men, but from the actual status of the vacant property.
quattuor autem anni post irritum testamentum factum et intestati possessionem ab omnibus repudiatam, qui gradatim petere potuerunt, uel temporis finem, quod singulis praestitutum est, computabuntur.
However, the four years will be computed after the testament has become invalid and the possession on intestacy has been rejected by all who could have claimed it in succession, or after the end of the time predetermined for each of them.