[MACER libro secundo de appellationibus. ] §49.13.1.prAppellatore defuncto, si quidem sine herede, cuiuscumque generis appellatio fuit, euanescit.
[MACER, On Appeals, Book II] If the appellant dies, if indeed without an heir, whatever the nature of the appeal was, it lapses.
quod si appellatori heres extiterit, si quidem nullius alterius interest causas appellationis reddi, cogendus non est peragere appellationem: si uero fisci uel alterius, contra quem appellatum est, interest, heres causas appellationis reddere necesse habet.
But if an heir exists for the appellant, if indeed it is in the interest of no other person that the grounds of the appeal be presented, he is not to be compelled to pursue the appeal; but if it is in the interest of the imperial treasury or of another person against whom the appeal was made, the heir is required to present the grounds of the appeal.
nullius autem interest, ueluti cum sine ademptione bonorum relegatus est.
Now, it is in the interest of no one, for example, when a person has been relegated without confiscation of goods.
nam si ademptis bonis relegatus uel in insulam deportatus uel in metallum datus prouocatione interposita decesserit, imperator noster Alexander Plaetorio militi ita rescripsit: 'Quamuis pendente appellatione morte rei crimen extinctum sit, data tamen etiam de parte bonorum eius sententia proponitur, aduersus quam non aliter is, qui emolumentum successionis habet, optinere potest, quam si in reddendis causis appellationis iniquitatem sententiae detexerit'. §49.13.1.1Tutor quoque in negotio pupilli appellatione interposita si decesserit, heredem eius causas appellationis reddere necesse est, etiamsi rationes tutelae heres reddiderit, quia sufficit mortis tempore ad causas appellationis reddendas obligatum fuisse.
For if a person relegated with confiscation of goods, or deported to an island, or sentenced to the mines, should die after filing an appeal, our Emperor Alexander replied by rescript to the soldier Plaetorius as follows: 'Although, while the appeal is pending, the crime is extinguished by the death of the accused, nevertheless the sentence pronounced even concerning a part of his property remains standing, against which the person who has the benefit of the succession cannot prevail otherwise than if, in presenting the grounds of the appeal, he has demonstrated the injustice of the sentence.' If a tutor also, having filed an appeal in a matter concerning his pupillus, should die, his heir is required to present the grounds of the appeal, even if the heir has already rendered the accounts of the tutelage, since it is sufficient that at the time of death he was under obligation to present the grounds of the appeal.
sed diui Seuerus et Antoninus rescripserunt non cogendum tutorem post rationes redditas causas appellationum reddere.
But the deified Severus and Antoninus replied by rescript that a tutor is not to be compelled to present the grounds of appeals after the accounts have been rendered.