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. “Another change under Justinian was […]