heredes

Heirs are called sui heredes, that is, heirs of themselves or of their own property, as is explained by Gaius.

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

Verum a Cornuto sublatis libris, pecuniam sororibus, quas heredes frater fecerat, reliquit. '

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

[158] Ulpian in Dig., 38, 16, 1: suos heredes accipere debemus filios filias sive naturales sive adoptivos.

A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. Eugene A. Hecker

Here then was a voluntary transfer of more or less property at pleasure to persons freely chosen, who were not necessarily universal successors, if they ever were, and who nevertheless took under the name heredes.

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

/4/To those, the text reads, whom the donor has named heredes (quos heredes appellavit).

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

/1/This choice of heirs [359] recalls the quos heredes appellavit of the Salic law just mentioned, and may be compared with the language of a Norman charter of about the year 1190: "To W. and his heirs, to wit those whom he may constitute his heirs."

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

To return to Bracton, it must be understood that the description of assigns as quasi heredes is not accidental.

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

Et ego vero predictus Johannes Mayowe et heredes mei mesuagium predictum cum omnibus et singulis terris Toftis Croftis, pratis, pascuis et pasturis supradictis ac omnibus suis pertinenciis prefatis Roberto Throckmerton,

Shakespeare's Family 1885

Recens enim in quorundam vestrorum animis adhuc est illius cruenti temporis memoria quod a Ricardo tertio cum avi nostri materni Edwardi Quarti statum in controversiam vocasset ejusque heredes regno atque vitâ privâsset illatum est.

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

"Recens in quorundam vestrorum animis adhuc est illius cruenti temporis memoria," said Henry VIII. in a speech in council, "quod a Ricardo tertio cum avi nostri materni Edwardi quarti statum in controversiam vocâsset ejusque heredes regno atque vitâ privâsset illatum est."

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856