Peregrini
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Institutes of Roman Law
Non-citizens whose original capacity to take trust inheritances was later revoked by Hadrian.
Vt ecce peregrini poterant fideicommissa capere;
The original object of trusts was to extend the testator’s bounty to those who were legally incapacitated to be legatees;
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: