Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
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.