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Heir testamentary

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civil law. One who is named and appointed heir in the testament of the decedent. This name distinguishes him from a legal heir, (one upon whom the law casts the succession,) and from a conventional heir, (one who takes it by virtue of a previous contract or settlement.)