Astrarius

Lat. [L. Fr. astrer, q. v.] In old English law. The occupant of a hearth or house; a person in actual possession. Astrarius haeres; an heir placed by the ancestor in the house (astrum) which he was to inherit. Bract. fol.

85.

An heir in actual possession of the property, as occupying the house he was to inherit, (eo quod reperitur in atrio sive in astro.) Id. fol.

267 b.

Si ambo fuerint extra, et sic neuter astrarius; if both were out [of possession], and so neither astrarius. Id. ibid. See Id. fol.

268. Co. Litt. 8 b.