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heir
heir : one who inherits or is entitled to succeed to the possession of property after the death of its owner: as a : one who by operation of law inherits the property and esp. the real property of a person who dies without leaving a valid will used in jurisdictions whose law is based on English common law called also heir at law heir general legal heir compare issue b in the civil law of Louisiana : one who succeeds to the estate of a person by will or esp. by operation of law see also intestacy, unworthy compare ancestor, devisee, legatee, next of kin, successor apparent heir : heir apparent in this entry beneficiary heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who exercises the benefit of inventory which limits the amount of his or her liability for the decedent's debts bod·i·ly heir : heir of the body in this entry forced heir : an heir who cannot be disinherited except for causes recognized by law ;esp in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who because of yo...
Heir
Heir [fr. heire, Old Fr.; h'res, Lat.], a person who succeeds by descent to an estate of inheritance. It is nomen collectivum, and extends to all heirs; and under heirs, the heirs of heirs are comprehended in infinitum.A person who, under the laws of intestacy, is entitled to receive an intestate decedents property, esp. real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 727.The (English) Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45, having abolished all modes of descent of real property obtaining before 1st January, 1926, in regard to deaths taking place after 1925, except in a few cases (see DESCENT and DEVOLUTION), the importance of the 'heir' had diminished but the following note has been retained since the word 'heir' will be construed according to its meaning under the general law in force before 1926, in deeds and wills executed after 1925, under which the 'heir' may become entitled to an equitable interest in personality and realty corresponding to a real estate by purchase under the ol...
apparent heir
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Apparent heir
Apparent heir. See HEIR. In Scots Law, he is the person to whom the succession to heritable property has actually opened. He is so called until his regular entry on the lands. The term is now of little practical importance....
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales, the eldest son of the reigning sovereign, if so created. He is the heir-apparent to the Crown; he is created Earl of Chester, and is Duke of Cornwall by inheritance (during the life of the sovereign), without any new creation. See Letters of Queen Victoria, Sir James Graham to Her Majesty, 6th Dec. 1841. As to rights of the heir-apparent to submarine mines and minerals in Corn wall, see 21 & 22 Vict. c. 109; as to the obligation of his creditors to claim payment of debts within a short period of their being incurred on pain of the debts being barred, see 35 Geo. 3, c. 125....
VerbarInfante
A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal except the eldest or heir apparent...
Adjudication contra h'reditatem jacentem
Adjudication contra h'reditatem jacentem. When a debtor's heir apparent renounces the succession, any creditor may obtain a decree cognitionis causa, the purpose of which is that the amount of the debt may be ascertained so that the real estate may be adjudged, Scots term. Consult Encyc. Of Scots Law....
Aids
Aids [fr. aides, Fr.; auxlia, Lat.], originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord in times of distress, but at length the lords claimed them as of right. They were principally three: (1) To ransom the lord's person, if taken prisoner; (2) To make the lord's eldest son and heir apparent a knight; (3) To give a suitable portion to the lord's eldest daughter on her marriage. Abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24. Also extraordinary grants to the Crown by the House of Commons, and which were the origin of the modern system of taxation, 2 Bl. Com. 63, 64....
Astrarius h'res
Astrarius h'res [fr. astre, Fr., the hearth of a chimney], an heir apparent who has been placed, by conveyance ,in possession of his ancestor's estate during such ancestor's lifetime, Co. Litt. 8....
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