Heritance

An estate in things, descending to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. ich an estate in lands or tenements or things as may be inherited by the heir. mes de la Ley. n estate or property which a man has by cent, as heir to another, or which he may smit to another, as his heir. Litt. § 9. perpetuity in lands or tenements to a man and his heirs. Cowell; Blount. “Inheritance” is also used in the old books re “hereditament” is now commonly em- ‘ed. Thus, Coke divides inheritances ineorporeal and incorporeal, into real, personal, and mixed, and into entire and sev- In the civil law. The succession of the ‘to all the rights and property of the esleaver. It is either testamentary, where he heir is created by will, or ab intestato, era it arises merely by operation of law.

Teinec. § 484.