Notae ad Scaevolae Responsorum libros
Ex libro III
Dig. 5,2,13Scaevola libro tertio responsorum. Titia filiam heredem instituit, filio legatum dedit: eodem testamento ita cavit: ‘Ea omnia quae supra dari fieri iussi, ea dari fieri volo ab omni herede bonorumve possessore qui mihi erit etiam iure intestato: item quae dari iussero, ea uti dentur fiantque, fidei eius committo.’ quaesitum est, si soror centumvirali iudicio optinuerit, an fideicommissa ex capite supra scripto debeantur. respondi: si hoc quaeratur, an iure eorum, quos quis sibi ab intestato heredes bonorumve possessores successuros credat, fidei committere possit, respondi posse. Paulus notat: probat autem nec fideicommissa ab intestato data deberi, quasi a demente.
Ad Dig. 5,2,13Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. III, § 631, Note 9.Scævola, Opinions, Book III. Titia appointed her daughter heir, left her son a legacy, and provided by the same will that: “All those things which I have above directed to be given or done, I wish to be given and done by any person who will become my heir, or the possessor of my estate, even on intestacy. Also, whatever I may direct hereafter to be given or done, I leave in trust to the said person to see that it is given and done.” The question arose whether, if a sister gained a case in the Centumviral Court, the trust must be executed in compliance with the preceding clause? My answer to the inquiry whether a party can lawfully impose a trust on those whom he thinks will succeed him on intestacy, either as heirs, or as possessors of his estate, was that he could do so. Paulus states in a note that he approves the opinion that trusts imposed by a party who dies intestate need not be executed, as they would seem to have been ordered by a person of unsound mind.