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Heirloom

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

heir-lome.

In English law

A personal chattel which goes by special custom to the heir, with the inheritance, as articles of household furniture, or, according to Coke, fish in a pond, deer in a park, and doves in a dove-housa