“Another change under Justinian was of much greater importance. Gifts of all kinds could now be made to incertae personae….” W.W. Buckland, A Text-Book of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian 363 (Peter Stein ed., 3d ed. 1963).
incerta persona
incerta persona (in-s[schwa]r-t[schwa] p[schwa]r-soh-n[schwa]). [Latin “uncertain person”] Roman law. A person (or corporate body) that could not inherit property, such as a person whose existence was uncertain or whom the testator could not identify by name (such as the first person to appear at the testator’s funeral). Pl. incertae personae.
