Notae ad Papiniani Quaestionum libros
Ex libro V
Dig. 46,5,8Papinianus libro quinto quaestionum. Paulus notat: Qui sub condicione institutus est, adgnita bonorum possessione cogitur substituto in diem cavere longiorem: praetor enim beneficium suum nemini vult esse captiosum et potest videri calumniose satis petere, quem alius antecedit. 1Cum sub contrariis condicionibus Titio et Maevio legatum sit, utrique cavetur, quia uterque ex voluntate defuncti sperat legatum.
Papinianus, Questions, Book V. Paulus says that when anyone is appointed under a condition, and is recognized as capable of holding possession of the estate, he will be compelled to give security to the substitute, but for a more remote date. For the Prætor does not wish the benefit which he confers to become a source of deceit, and a man can seem to demand security for the purpose of annoyance, when another precedes him. 1When a legacy has been bequeathed to Mævius and to Titius, under opposite conditions, security is furnished to both of them, because both expect a legacy under the will of the deceased.