Epistularum et variarum lectionum libri
Ex libro VI
Dig. 50,12,14Pomponius libro sexto epistularum et variarum lectionum. Si quis sui alienive honoris causa opus facturum se in aliqua civitate promiserit, ad perficiendum tam ipse quam heres eius ex constitutione divi Traiani obligatus est. sed si quis ob honorem opus facturum se civitate aliqua promiserit atque inchoaverit et priusquam perficeret, decesserit: heres eius extraneus quidem necesse habet aut perficere id aut partem quintam patrimonii relicti sibi ab eo, qui id opus facere instituerat, si ita mallet, civitati, in qua id opus fieri coeptum est, dare: is autem, qui ex numero liberorum est, si heres exstitit, non quintae partis, sed decimae concedendae necessitate adficitur. et haec divus Antoninus constituit.
Ad Dig. 50,12,14Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. II, § 304, Note 8.Pomponius, Epistles and Various Passages, Book VI. When anyone, in consideration of an honor to be conferred upon him, or upon someone else, promises that he will construct a public work in a certain city, he, as well as his heir, will be bound by a Constitution of the Divine Trajan to complete it. If anyone, in consideration of an honor to be conferred, should promise that he will construct some work, and begins it and dies before completing it, and leaves a foreign heir, the latter will either be compelled to complete the work, or, if he prefers to do so, he can set aside the fifth part of the estate which was left to him, for the purpose of furnishing it, and transfer it to the city in which the work has been begun. Where, however, the heir is one of the children, he will be required to contribute, not the fifth, but the tenth part of the estate. This was decided by the Divine Antoninus.