De legatis positiones

XXXVII.
Finally, since a man’s last will must be ambulatory until death, it is free for the testator to revoke a legacy ascribed to someone, either in whole or in part: and either to retain it for himself: or to transfer it to another in any words whatsoever.

XXXIIX.
Sometimes also by the authority of the Law, many legacies are diminished against the will of the testator by the Falcidian Law: which forbids consuming more than three-quarters in legacies.

XXXIX.
Furthermore, once the testator is dead, the ownership of the bequeathed thing is assumed to pass immediately to the legatee or his heir.

XL.
For the sake of pursuing this, one can use a personal, real, and mortgage action: but the power to return from one to another is not given.

XLI.
However, he who seizes a legacy against the will of the heir can have the possession of the legacies revoked from him by an interdict.

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