Heir
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
IRREGULAR.
In Louisiana, Irregular heirs are those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. Sea Civil Code La. art.
874.
When there are no direct or collateral relatives surviving the decedent, und the succession consequently devolves upon the surviving husband or wife, or illegitimate children, or the state, if is called an “irregular succession.”