commisses

Updated: May 1, 2025

They were altogether unknown to the Romans. Neither their substitutions, nor fidei commisses, bear any resemblance to entails, though some French lawyers have thought proper to dress the modern institution in the language and garb of those ancient ones. When great landed estates were a sort of principalities, entails might not be unreasonable.

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations