Haeredem Deus Facit
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
NON HOIVIO. God, and not man, makes the heir. Bracton, 62b. HAEREDEM EST NOMEN COLLECTIvum. Heir is a collective name. HAEREDES (Lat. plural of haerea). lu civil law. Heirs. HAEREDES EXTRANEI (Lat.)
In civil law. Extraneous or foreign heirs; that is, those who were not children or slaves of the testator. Those only could be extraneous heirs who had a capacity of accepting the inheritance both at the time of making the will and at the death of the testator. Halifax, Anal. bk. 11, c. 6, § 38 et seq. HAEREDES NECESSARII (Lat.)
In civil law. Necessary heirs. If slaves were made heirs, they had no choice, but on the death of the testator were necessarily free and his heirs. Calv. Lex.; Halifax, Anal. bk. 11, c. 6, § 38 et seq.; Heinec. Elem., Jur. Civ. § 587. HAEREDES PROXIMl (Lat.) The children or descendants of the deceased. Dalr. Feud. Prop. 110. HAEREDES REMOTIORES (Lat.) The HAEREDES SUI ET NECESSARII (Lat.)
In civil law. Proper and necessary heirs; heirs by relationship and necessity. The descendants of an ancestor in direct line were so called,_ sui denoting the relationship, and neeessarii the necessity of law which made them heirs without their election, and whether the ancestor died testate or intestate. Halifax, Anal. bk. 11, c. 6, § 38 et seq.; Mackeld, Civ. Law, §§ 681, 682; Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. § 688. HAEREDIPETA (Law Lat.) In old Eng. lish law. Next heir. Laws Hen. I.; Du Cange. One who seeks to be made heir (qui cupit haereditatem), HAEREDIPETAE SUO PROPINQUO vel extraneo perlculoso sane custodi nullus com,mittatur. To the next heir, whether a relation or_ a stranger, certainly a dangerous guardian, let no one be committed. Co. Litt. 88b. HAEREDITAS (Lat. from haeres). In Civil Law. "Nihil aliud est haereditas, quam successio in universum jus, quod defunctus habuit." Inheritance is nothing else than succession to every right which the deceased possessed. Dig. 50. 17; Id. 50. 16; Id. 5. 2; Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 605; Bracton, 62b. In Old English Law. An estate transmissible by descent; an inheritance. Mart. Anec. Collect, tit. 3, p. 269; Co. Litt. 9; Glanv. lib. 7, c. 1.