Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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n. [law latin "hearth owner"] hist. The owner or occupant of a house. - also termed astrer (as-trar). See heres astrarius under heres.

[Law Latin "heir of the hearth"] An heir who has received, by conveyance, an ancestor's estate during the ancestor's lifetime.