Heir
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
TESTAMENTARY.
In civil law
One who is constituted heir by testament executed in the form prescribed by law. He is so called to distinguish him from the "legal heirs," who are called to the succession by the law; and from "conventional heirs," who are so constituted by a contract inter vivos. See "Haeres Factus"; "Devisee."