Haereditas Luctuosa
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the civil law. A sad or mournful inheritance or succession; as that of a parent to the estate of a child, which was regarded as disturbing the natural order of mortality (turbato ordine mortalitatis). Code, 6. 25. 9; 4 Kent, Comm. 397.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A sorrowful inheritance.