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  • HEREDERO
    In Spanish law. Heir; he who, by legal or testamentary disposition, succeeds to the property of a deceased person. "Haeres censeatur cum defuncto una eademque persona." Las Partidas, 7, 9, 13; See Emeric v. Alvarado, 64 Cal. 529, 2 Pac 433.
  • HEREDITAGIUM
    In Sicilian and Neapolitan law. That which is held by hereditary right; the same with her edit amentum (hereditament) in English law. Spelman.
  • HEREDITAMENTS
    Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir-looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nellis v. Munson, More...
  • HEREDITARY
    That which is the subject of inheritance. -Hereditary disease. One transmitted or transmissible from parent to child in consequence of the infection of the former or the presence of the disease in his system, and without exposure of the latter to any fresh source of infection or contagion.-Hereditary right to More...
  • HEREFARE
    Sax. A going into or with an army; a going out to war, (profectio tuilitaris;) an expedition. Spelman.
  • HEREGEAT
    A herlot, (q. v.)
  • HEREGELD
    Sax. In old English law. A tribute or tax levied for the maintenance of an army. Spelman.
  • HEREMITORIUM
    A place of retirement for hermits. Mon. Angl. torn. 3, p. 18.
  • HEREMONES
    Followers of an army.
  • HERENACH
    An archdeacon. Cowell.
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