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H>£RES LEGITIMU8 (Lat.). A lawful heir, being a legitimate child of parents who were married. HyERE8 NATU8 (Lat.). An heir who is such by birth or descent. This is the only form of heirship recognized in the English law; Wins. R. P., 6th Am. ed. 96. H/ERE8 NECE88ARIU8 (Lat.). In Civil Law. A necessary heir, i. e. a slave instituted heir. He was so-called because whether he wished it or not, on the death of the testator he became instantly free and necessarily heir. A person suspecting that he was Insolvent usually made a slave his heir so that his goods would be sold, if that were necessary, in the name of this heir and not as those of the testator. Inst. 2, 19. 1; id. 1. 6. 1; Sand. Introd. § 76. H^RE8 PR0XIMU8 (Lat.). The child or descendant of the deceased. Dalr. Feud. 110. H/ERE8 RECTUS (Lat). in Old English Law. A right heir. Fleta, 1. 6, c. 1, § 11. H>ERES REMOTIOR (Lat). A more remote heir. A kinsman, not a child or descendant H/ERES 8UUS. In Civil Law. One’s own heir; the natural heir of the decedent; his lineal descendants. Persons who were in the power of the testator but became aui juris at his death. Inst. 2. 13; id. 3. 1. 4. 5. H^RES SUU8 ET NECESSARIUS. In Civil Law. An heir by relationship and nerelationship, and necessarii, the necessity of law which made them heirs without their election, and whether the ancestor died testate or intestate, Halifax, Anal. b. 11, c. C, § 38; Mack. Civ. L. § 681; Inst. 2. 19. 2. H/ERETARE. To give a right of inheritance or make a donation hereditary to the grantee and his heirs. Cowell. H^RETICO COMBURENOO. See De H.®betico Combubendo.