Caduca
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
(Lat. cadere, to fall).
In civil law. An inheritance; an escheat; everything which falls to the legal heir by descent. By some writers, bona eaduoa are said to be tiiose to which no heir succeeds, equivalent to escheats. Du Cange. CAEDUA (Lat. from caedere, to cut).
In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood. Silva caedua est quae in hoe habetur ut caederetur, sylva caedua is that kind of wood which is kept for the purpose of being cut. Dig. 50. 16. 30. According to Servius, it was that kind which, when cut down, grew up again from the trunks or roots. Id. See Dig. 7. 1. 10. 11; Id. 43. 24. 18.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In the civil law. Property of an inheritable quality; property such us deecends to an heir. Aliso the lapse of a testamentary disposition or legacy. Also an escheat; escheated property.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. [from cadere, to fall.] In the civil law. Escheats, or escheated lands. Co, Litt, 13 a. Those that /a// to the state. See Escheat.