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|lshtext=<b>fĭdĕĭ-committo</b>: (also [[separately]] fidei [[committo]]), mīsi, [[missum]], 3, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a. [[fides]]; lit., to [[intrust]] a [[thing]] to a [[person]]'s [[good]] [[faith]]; [[hence]], jurid. t. t., to [[leave]] [[any]] [[thing]] by [[last]] [[will]] and [[testament]] to be delivered to a [[third]] [[party]], to [[bequeath]] in [[trust]]: [[pater]] filium praedia alienare prohibuerat, sed conservare liberis et ceteris cognatis fideicommiserat, Dig. 32, 1, 38: [[avia]] nepotibus heredibus institutis fideicommisit, ut solida legata fratribus solverent, ib. 35, 2, 14; 30, 1, 114; § 3: qui [[intestato]] decedit et scit bona sua ad fiscum perventura vacantia, fidei fisci committere potest, ib. § 2: fideicommissa [[libertas]], given by [[fideicommissum]], Gai. Inst. 2, 267; Dig. 40, 5, 1 sq.—Hence, fĭdĕĭcommissum, i, n., a [[bequest]] given for the [[benefit]] of a [[third]] [[person]], by [[way]] of [[request]], not of [[command]]; and held to be [[equitably]] [[due]] [[out]] of [[respect]] to the [[wish]] of the [[testator]] (cf. [[legatum]]): [[fideicommissum]] est [[quod]] non civilibus verbis, sed [[precative]] relinquitur, nec ex rigore juris [[civilis]] proficiscitur, sed ex voluntate datur relinquentis, Ulp. Fragm. 25, 1: De fideicommissis, Dig. 30-32; Gai. Inst. 2, 246-289; Cod. Just. 6, 42; Suet. Claud. 23; Quint. 3, 6, 70; 9, 2, 74.

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