HZREDITAS
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
HADD. Iu Hindu law. A boundary or limit. A statutory punishment defined by law, and not arbitrary. Mozley & Whitley.
whether he would accept or decline, (potestas deliberandi,) the reason for this precaution being that (prior to Justinian’s enactment to the contrary) a heres after his aditio was Ifable to the full extent of the debts of the deceased person, and could have no rellef therefrom, except in the case of a damnum emergens or damnosa hereditas, i. €., an hereditus which disclosed (after the aditio) some enormous unsuspected lability. Brown.
whether he would accept or decline, (potestas deliberandi,) the reason for this precaution being that (prior to Justinian’s enactment to the contrary) a heres after his aditio was Ifable to the full extent of the debts of the deceased person, and could have no rellef therefrom, except in the case of a damnum emergens or damnosa hereditas, i. €., an hereditus which disclosed (after the aditio) some enormous unsuspected lability. Brown.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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