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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.