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Hospitals

corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance; or sole, in which the master, etc., only has the estate in him, and the brethren or sisters,

Major hereditas venit uncuique nostrum a jure et legibus quam a parentibus

Major hereditas venit uncuique nostrum a jure et legibus quam a parentibus [Lat.], a greater inheritance comes to every one of us from right and the laws than from parents.

Hereditaments

things, whether corporeal or incorporeal [as] a man may have to him and his heirs by way of inheritance, and which, if they be not otherwise bequeathed', go to the heir, and not as chattels to the

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Hindu male dying intestate

male', Fateh Bibi v. Charan Dass, AIR 1970 SC 789 (794): (1970) 1 SCC 658. [Hindu Law of Inheritance (Amendment) Act, 1929 Preamble]

Heirs

only. It must mean all persons who are entitled to the property of another under the law of inheritance, N. Krishnammal v. R. Ekambaram, AIR 1979 SC 1298 (1301): (1979) 3 SCC 273: (1979) 3 SCR 700.

Heirdom

Heirdom, succession by inheritance.

Half blood

old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no

Glebe

Glebe, the land possessed as part of the property of an ecclesiastical benefice. The soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 698. As to sale of glebe, and offer thereof

Gavelkind

together as heirs of his body. Since the 1st January, 1834, the half blood inherit, for the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833 (s. 9), applied to land of every tenure (s. 1). This Act and the (English) Law

Fundi patrimoniales

Fundi patrimoniales (lands of inheritance).

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