HAEREDITAS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  HAEREDITAS. An inheritance, or an estate which descends to one by 
  succession. At common law an inheritance never ascends, haereditas nunquam 
  ascendit. But in many of the states of the Union provision is made by 
  statute in favor of ascendants.