Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heirlooms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nellis v. Munson, 108 X. Y. 453. 15 N. E. 739; Owens v. Lewis, 46 Ind. 508, 15 Am. Rep. 295; … [Read more...]
HERETUM
In old records. A court or yard for drawing up guards or military retinue. Cowell. … [Read more...]
HERMANDAD
In Spanish law. A fraternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected by men in power. Bouvier. … [Read more...]
HEREDITARY
That which is the subject of inheritance. Hereditary disease. One transmitted or transmissible from parent to child in consequence of the infection of the former or the presence of the disease in his system, and without exposure of the latter to any fresh source of infection or contagion. Hereditary right to the crown. The crown of England, by the positive constitution of the … [Read more...]
HEREUNDER
Within the document or as seen later within the document. … [Read more...]