Codicil
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Codicillus · Codicils · a codicil · codicil · codicillary declaration · codicillis
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
A supplementary written instrument used to confirm wills, create legacies/trusts, or declare unworthiness.
The treasury was bound to pay all codicillary legacies and trusts:
not defeasible by the claimant entitled at civil law by intestacy, it was necessary that the testator on reacquiring capacity should confirm his will by a codicil or other writing (codicillis aut aliis litteris), Dig.
concealment of a portion of the hereditaments in order to defraud a legatee (whereupon the heir forfeited the fourth which he was entitled to retain from such legacy by the lex Falcidia), the discovery that though putative son he was not a genuine son of the testator, the deliberate cancellation of his name by the testator, the imperfect execution of a subsequent will in which he was excluded from …
On The Estate of Cleonymus
A supplementary document by which Cleonymus could have recorded any addition to his will's dispositions, since only the deposited will itself could be formally annulled at the magistrate's office. He never made one.
Furthermore, if he wished to add anything to these dispositions, why did he not record and leave behind him his wishes in a codicil, when he found himself unable to procure the original will from the officials?