Heirs
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
BENEFrCIARY.
In civil law
Those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. Civ. Code La. art.
879.
If the heir apprehend that the succession will be burdened with debts beyond its value, he accepts with benefit of inventory, and in that case he is responsible only for the value of the succession.