Digestorum libri
Ex libro XXXIV
Dig. 31,27Celsus libro trigesimo quarto digestorum. Si illud aut illud legatum sit, unum legatum est. si sub contrariis condicionibus aliud atque aliud legatum est, unum legatum esse arbitramur. neque refert et heredum et eorum quibus legatum est diversas personas esse, veluti si ita legatum est: ‘si Nerva consul factus erit, Titius heres Attio fundum, si non erit Nerva consul factus, Seius heres Maevio centum dato’.
Celsus, Digest, Book XXXIV. Where such-and-such property, or such-and-such other property is bequeathed, there is only one legacy. If one article is bequeathed under certain conditions, and another under others, we hold that there is but one legacy, nor does it make any difference whether the heirs, and those to whom the legacies were left, are different persons or not; for instance, if the legacy was expressed in the following terms: “If Nerva should be made Consul, let my heir Titius be charged with the delivery of such-and-such a tract of land to Attius; and if Nerva should not be made Consul, let my heir Seius pay a hundred aurei to Mævius.”