Epistularum et variarum lectionum libri
Ex libro VI
Ad Dig. 50,12,14Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. II, § 304, Note 8.Pomponius, Epistles and Various Passages, Book VI. When anyone, in consideration of an honor to be conferred upon him, or upon someone else, promises that he will construct a public work in a certain city, he, as well as his heir, will be bound by a Constitution of the Divine Trajan to complete it. If anyone, in consideration of an honor to be conferred, should promise that he will construct some work, and begins it and dies before completing it, and leaves a foreign heir, the latter will either be compelled to complete the work, or, if he prefers to do so, he can set aside the fifth part of the estate which was left to him, for the purpose of furnishing it, and transfer it to the city in which the work has been begun. Where, however, the heir is one of the children, he will be required to contribute, not the fifth, but the tenth part of the estate. This was decided by the Divine Antoninus.