Ad legem Iuliam et Papiam libri
Ex libro XIII
Dig. 31,54Idem libro tertio decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. Si cui fundus centum dignus legatus fuerit, si centum heredi vel cuilibet alii dederit, uberrimum videtur esse legatum: nam alias interest legatarii fundum potius habere quam centum: saepe enim confines fundos etiam supra iustam aestimationem interest nostra adquirere.
The Same, On the Lex Julia et Papia, Book XIII. Where a tract of land worth a hundred aurei is devised as follows, “If he should pay a hundred aurei to my heir or to anyone else,” the legacy is held to be very valuable, for it may be more to the benefit of the legatee to have the land than a hundred aurei, since it is often to our interest to acquire land adjoining our own, for a sum even above its just appraisement.