Utereditas

hereditas, I.

In old English law. An inheritance; an estate by descent or succession; inheritance; hereditary succession. Hsereditas ab intestato: succession from an intestate. Hsereditas alia corporalis, alia incorporalis: one kind of inheritance is corporeal, anotlier incorporeal. Hscreditas jacens: a fallen or prostrate inheritance; the inheritance of a person deceased, while it lay unacquired by the heirs; an inheritance before it was entered upon by the heir; an inheritance in abeyance or expectation, lying waiting, as it were, for the heir to take it up; an inheritance or estate left without a legal owner. Hereditas nihil aliad est quam successio in nnl Tersum jus quod defunctus habuit [habuerit]: inheritance is nothing else than succession to the whole right which the deceased had.

In the civil law. Hajredltas damnosa: v. Damnosa heereditas. Hsereditas luctnosa: a sad or mournful inheritance, or succession; as, of a parent to the estate of a child, which was regarded as disturbing the natui-al order of mortality.

In feudal law. Hereditas nunquam ascendit: an inheritance never ascends; a maxim which prevailed in the law bf England until abrogated by the statute 3 and 4 "Will. IV., c. 106.