Peregrini
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Institutes of Roman Law
Non-citizens whose original capacity to take trust inheritances was later revoked by Hadrian.
The original object of trusts was to extend the testator’s bounty to those who were legally incapacitated to be legatees;
Vt ecce peregrini poterant fideicommissa capere;
According to some, there is one case in which an alien may be bound by this word, namely, when a Roman emperor in concluding a treaty thus interrogates a foreign sovereign: