Heritage
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Civil Law. Every species of Immovable which can be the subject of property: such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 8 Toullier 472. See Co. Litt s. 731. HERMANOAD (called also, Santa Hermandad). In Spanish Law. A fraternity prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected by men in power. To carry Into effect the object of this association, each village and town elected two alcaldes,— one by the nobility and the other by the community at large. These had under their order inferior officers, formed into companies, called cuad villeros. Their duty was to arrest delinquents and bring them before the alcaldes, when they were tried substantially in the ordinary form. This tribunal, established during the anarchy prevailing in feudal times, continued to maintain its organization in Spain for centuries; and various laws determining its Jurisdiction and mode of proceeding were enacted by Ferdinand and Isabella and subsequent monarchs. Nov. Recop. tit 35, b. 12. S 7. The abuses introduced in the exercise of the functions of the tribunals caused their abolition, and the santas hermandades of Ciudad Rodrigo, Talavera, and Toledo, the last remnants of these anomalous Jurisdictions, were abolished by the law of the 7th May, 1835.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In the civil law. Every species of immovable which can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toullier, no. 472.
In Scotch law. Land, and all property connected with land; real estate, as distinguished from movables, or personal estate. Bell.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In Scots law. Land, and all property connected with land; real estate.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Inthe civillaw, Every species of immovable which can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toullier, no, 472, In Scotch law. Land. and all property connected with land; real estale, as distinguished from movables, or personal estate. Bell.