Haereditas Damnosa

See "Damnosa Haereditas." HAEREDITAS EST SUCCESSIO IN UNIversum jus quod defunctus liabuerat. Inheritance is the succession to every right which was possessed by the late possessor. Co. Litt. 237. HAEREDITAS JACENS (Lat.) In Civil Law. A prostrate inheritance. The inheritance left to a voluntary heir was so called as long as he had not manifested, either expressly or by silence, his acceptance or refusal of the inheritance, which, by a fiction of law, was said to sustain the person (sustinere personam) of the deceased, and not of the heir. Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 685a. An estate with no heir or legatee to take. Code, 10. 10. 1; Bell, Diet. In English Law. An estate in abeyance; that is, after the ancestor's death, and therefore open- to the first occupant. 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 259.