Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
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 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.
necessarius
adj. [Latin] 1. Necessary; essential. 2. Unavoidable; obligatory; compelling.