Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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ftduciarius heres
[Latin "fiduciary heir"] Roman law. A person formally named an heir in a testament, but in a fiduciary capacity, and charged to deliver the succession to the person designated by the testament.
heres
n. [Latin] Roman law. A successor to the rights and liabilities of a deceased narson-. an heir. ( Because the heres succeeded to both the rights and the debts of the decedent, the office was more similar to a modern executor than an heir at law. The institution of the heres was the essential characteristic of a testament; if this was not done, the instrument was called a codicillus. - Also spelled (in Law Latin) haeres. Pl. heredes (ha-nee-deez) or (for haeres) haeredes.
heres astrarius
[Law Latin "heir of the hearth"] An heir who has received, by conveyance, an ancestor's estate during the ancestor's lifetime.
heres de facto
[Law Latin "heir from fact"] Hist. 1. An heir whose status arises from the disseisin or other wrongful act of the heir's ancestor. See DISSEISIN. 2. An heir in fact, as distinguished from an heir by law (de jure).
heres ex asse
[Latin "sole heir"] Roman law. An heir to the whole estate. heres ex testamento. See heres factus.
heres extraneus
[Latin "extraneous heir"] Roman law. An external heir; one not subject to the testator's power (potestas) and hence not bound to accept the inheritance.
heres factus
[Latin "made heir"] An heir appointed by will; a testamentary heir. - Also termed heres ex testamento; heres institutus. Cf. heres natus.
heres fideicommissarius
[Latin] Roman law. The person for whose benefit an estate was given by will to a fiduciary heir. ( This office corresponds closely with the cestui qui trust of the common law. Cf. heres fiduciarius.
heres ftduciarius
[Latin "fiduciary heir"] Roman law. A person made heir by will, in trust for the benefit of another; an heir subject to a trust. Cf. heres fideicommissarius. heres institutus. See heres factus.
heres legitimus
[Latin "lawful heir"] Roman law. An heir entitled to succeed (on intestacy) by statute.
heres natus
[Latin "heir by birth"] An heir by reason of birth; an heir at law or by intestacy. Cf. heres factus.
heres necessarius
[Latin "necessary heir"] Roman law. A person compelled to serve as heir, usu. either a slave freed on the testator's death or a free person in the testator's power.
heres rectus
[Law Latin] Hist. A right or proper heir.
heres suus
[Latin "one's own heir"] 1. A decedent's proper or natural heir; a lineal descendant of the deceased. 2. Roman law. A free person who was subject to the testator's power (potestas) but who could exercise full legal rights upon the testator's death.
heres suus et necessarius
[Latin "one's own and necessary heir"] A free person subject to the decedent's potestas. ( These heirs were called necessary because they became heirs by law, not by the decedent's choice. But since this was also true of slaves, when named heirs in a will, the former class was designated suus et necessarius by way of distinction, the word suus denoting that the necessity arose from the relationship to the decedent.
heresy
n. 1. Opinion or doctrine contrary to (usu. Catholic) church dogma. 2. Hist. In England, an offense against religion, consisting not in totally denying Christianity, but in publicly denying some of its essential doctrines; an opinion on divine subjects devised solely by human reason, openly taught, and obstinately maintained. ( This offense is now subject only to ecclesiastical correction and is no longer punishable by the secular law.
ultimas heres
The last or remote heir; the lord.
ultimus heres
See HERES.
unciarius heres
[Latin] Roman law. An heir to one-twelfth of an estate or inheritance.
vente aux encheres
An auction. See AUCTION.