Hasreditas

In Roman law. The hereditas was a universal succession by law to any deceased person, whether such person bad died testate or intestate, and whether in trust (ex fideicommisso) for another or not. The tike succession according to Preetorian law was bonorum possessto. The hareditas was called “jacens,” until the heres took it up, t. e., made his aditio hereditatis; and such heres, if a sus hwres, had the right to abstain, (petesics abstinendi,) and, if an extraneus haves, had the right to consider whether he would accept or decline, (potestas deliterands,) the reason for this precaution being that (prior te Justinian’s enactment to the contvary} a heres after his editio was liable to the full extent of the debts of the decassz3c person, and could have no relief thecefrom, except in the case of a damnum emcergens or damnosaz haereditas, i. e, an hereditus which disclosed (after the aditio) sore enormous unsuspected liability. Brown, In old English law. An estate trans- Hereditas, alia corporalis, alia incorporalis; corporalis est, quz tangi potest et videri; incorporalis que tangi non potest nec videri. Co. Litt. 9. An inheritance is either corporeal or incorporeal. Corporeal is that which can be touched and seen; incorporeal, that which can neither be touched nor seen.