Caduca
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
(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.