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Extraneus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from «c/ra, without,] In old English law. A stranger or foreigner; one who is bom out of the king^ dominions, {qui extra terram, i. e. potestatem regis, natus est!) *J Co. Id. In the Roman law. The epithet of an heir who was not subject to the power of the testator; {testatoris juri non subjectus.) Inst. 2.

19. 3.

The ha^es extraneus was thus distinguished from the suus, or domesiicus kceres.

Id. 2. 19, 2. Heinecc.

El. Jur. Civ. lib.

2, tit. 19, § 686.