PLINY HAS COME IN FOR A LEGACY
Under the ius civile an inheritance was either testate or intestate; one could not be by deliberate choice partly one and partly the other. (I set aside here the effects of' fideicommissa which are not in issue.) A testate inheritance, one made by will by a competent testator, had to create one or more heirs who would inherit the whole estate.
Thereafter the will could proceed to grant specific interests, in actual objects or in proportions of the whole value of the estate, to anyone else (technically it was also possible to grant a legacy to an heir). The legacies were paid out of the value of the estate belonging to the heirs. It is not clear, nor relevant, who were Curianus' heirs. Whoever they were they were required by the will to pay over to Pliny the modest legacy which he was granted.C.
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