Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Feodum simplex quia feodum idem est quod haereditas, et simplex idem est quod legituum vel purum; et sic feodum simplex idem est quod haereditas legitima vel haereditas pura

"Fee simple" is so called because fee is the same as inheritance and simple is the same as lawful or pure; and thus fee simple is the same as a lawful inheritance of ;i pure inheritance.

Haereditas

See HEREDITAS.

Haereditas est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuerat

Inheritance is the succession to every right possessed by the late possessor.

Haereditas nihil aliud est quam successio in universum jus, quod defunctus habuerat.

The right of inheritance is nothing other than the faculty of succeeding to all the rights of the deceased.

Haereditas nunquam ascendit

An inheritance never ascends.

Major haereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus quam a parentibus

A greater inheritance comes to every one of us from right and the laws than comes from parents.