Lexicographical Neighbors of Heres
Literary usage of Heres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Henceforward a testamentum may be defined as a hst will by which a heres is
instituted (Dig. ... A person who was in the power of the heres or of a legatee, ..."
2. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars, Emperor of the East Justinian (1917)
"Veluti si quis dicat hoc modo: ' Titius filius meus heres mini esto : si filius
... heres mihi non erit, sive heres erit et prius moriatur, quara in suam ..."
3. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"differed from that of a heres, hi that it was only a singular one, limited by the
... (1) The institution of a heres was that formality which could not be ..."
4. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Ulpian, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"1 The law of the Twelve Tables confers the inheritance of a Roman citizen freedman
upon his patron, if the freedman die intestate without a suus heres; ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"The heres was a person who represented the testator, and who paid the ... A heres
might be appointed in such words as follow : < Titius heres esto,' ' let ..."
6. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"from the praetor the property of the deceased was called bonorum possessor, and
not heir (heres). Nevertheless, although this distinction as to civil and ..."
7. The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian by Gaius, Domitius Ulpianus (1885)
"... making cession previously to entering on the inheritance he effects nothing.
87. Whether a suns heres and a necessarius heres can effect anything by a ..."