Fideicommissum
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Institutes of Roman Law
Testamentary request that an heir or legatee transfer property or freedom to another, originally a moral obligation later made legally enforceable.
When this course was restricted by the lex Falcidia, a testator who wished a certain object of his bounty to receive the whole of his patrimony free from burdens would institute another person as heres, subject to a trust to transfer the whole of the inheritance, after payment of debts and perhaps with some remuneration for his trouble, to the real beneficiary (fideicommissarius).
There are many differences between trust bequests and direct bequests.
a precative disposition (a disposition in the form of entreaty) is a trust.