Hereditas Definition:

Also spelled hæreditas.

An estate or an inheritance.

A term of Roman law, of the civil law and, later, of the early English common law of probate and estates.

REFERENCES:

• Burrill, A., Law Dictionary and Glossary, Vol. II (New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., Law Publishers, 1867), page 5
• Howe, W., Studies in the Civil Law (Littleton, Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1980), page 68-69
• Monier, R., Vocabulaire de Droit Romain (Paris: Editions Domat, 1948), page 134