To receive property from a person who has died, traditionally referring to someone who had a natural right to receive the estate property, such as a child. … [Read more...]

In French law. The name given to the important prerogative conferred by the charte constitutionnelle, article 16, on the late king to propose through his ministers projects of laws. 1 Toullier, no. 39. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "gvnerosus," which denoted a person not merely free, but of good family. There were no distinctions among ingenui; but among liberiini there were … [Read more...]

Blood which has the purity (freedom from attainder) and legitimacy necessary to give its possessor the character of a lawful heir; that which is capable of being the medium for the transmission of an inheritance. … [Read more...]

A prohibitive writ issued by a court of equity, at. the suit of a party complainant, directed to a party defendant in the action, or to a party made a defendant for that purpose, forbidding the latter to do some act, or to permit his servants or agents to do some act, which he is threatening or attempting to commit, or restraining him in the continuance thereof, such act being … [Read more...]