arts. 873, 875. The term is also used in Anglo-American law in substantially the same sense, that is, the person to whom the law would give the decedent’s property, real and personal, if he should die intestate. Kaiser v. Kaiser, 3 How. Prac, N. S. (N. Y.) 105; Waller v. Martin, 106 Tenn. 341, 61 S. W. 78, 82 Am. St. Rep. 882.—Heir, male. In Scotch law. An heir institute, who, though not next in blood to the deceased, is his nearest male relation that can succeed to him. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 8, p. 76. In English law, the nearest male blood-relation of the decedent, unless further limited by the words “of his body,” which restrict the inheritance to fons, grandsons, and other male descendants in the right line. Jordan v. Adams.