Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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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.

defunctus

adj. [Latin] Dead, as in defunctus sine prole ("dead without (leaving) issue").